Mission News
Changing Lives — One Person at a Time
July 3, 2024
More so than almost any other place on Earth, youth in Sierra Leone struggle to survive because of the consequences of abject poverty. Yet amid overwhelming adversity, there’s hope for something better and it starts at Don Bosco Fambul. As one of the country’s leading child welfare...
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Caring for Our Common Home
July 3, 2024The details may differ, but the story is the same. In Thailand, just like most places around the world, global economics often conflict with environmental health. That’s why students at the Salesian Saengthong Vitthaya School are learning new ways to restore nature’s balance. Saengthong...
Healing Their Wounds
July 3, 2024Little Anjana was just three years old when her father died. By age five, she had already endured a lifetime’s worth of beatings from the man who took his place. At Jyoti Snehalaya (“House of Love”), she rediscovered her childhood—and reclaimed her future. Jyoti Snehalaya, a long-term...
Overcoming Humanitarian Crises
May 31, 2024Across Ethiopia, clean water for drinking, cooking and crops is so scarce that it drives people to desperate measures just to get their hands on a small jug of it. It’s a disaster of poverty so large that it should register as a humanitarian crisis but instead, it’s an unfortunate reality of...
Press Releases
GHANA: Pastoral work and social programs supported by Salesian Missions
July 23, 2024
Salesian work benefits parish and 52 outstations. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 23, 2024) Top of Form Salesians in Ghana had the support they need to facilitate pastoral work and social programs thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The St....
Read Full StoryWORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY: Salesian Missions highlights educational initiatives
July 15, 2024Salesians offer more than 1,000 vocational, technical, professional and agricultural schools. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 15, 2024) Top of Form Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in celebrating World...
TIMOR-LESTE: Youth access nutrition through partnership with Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger
July 10, 2024Don Bosco Foundation launches new nutrition project in 28 centers. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 10, 2024) Top of Form Youth in Salesian programs in Timor-Leste have access to better nutrition through a new year-long project that has launched thanks to a partnership with the Don Bosco Foundation...
WORLD REFUGEE DAY: Salesian Missions highlights educational programs for refugees
June 20, 2024Salesians also provide direct support of basic needs for refugees and internally displaced people. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 20, 2024) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring World Refugee...
News Coverage
(National Catholic Reporter) UN Water Conference shows global consensus on universal right to water
March 30, 2023
NEW YORK, N.Y. March 30, 2023 (Excerpt) The first day of the U.N. Water Conference, March 22, was international World Water Day, a day marked by Salesian Missions, the New York-based development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians have made clean water projects a priority because...
Read Full Story(ACI Africa) On World Water Day, Salesian entity reviews its “Clean Water Initiative” in Africa
March 27, 2023MAPUTO, Mozambique March 27, 2023 (Excerpt) On the occasion of World Water Day marked March 22, officials of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), have reviewed the entity’s global project dubbed “Clean Water...
(ACI Africa) Salesians in Burundi boost learning in partnership realizing “access to better nutrition”
March 13, 2023BUJUMBURA, Burundi March 13, 2023 (Excerpt) Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in Burundi are boosting learning at their institution in the country’s Catholic Diocese of Ngozi in a partnership that is realizing “access to better nutrition”. In a March 6...
(ACI Africa) War victims in North Kivu, DR Congo, benefit from Salesians’ “improved” facilities
February 28, 2023KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo Feb. 28, 2023 (Excerpt) At least 1,800 victims of violent conflicts in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have benefited from the medical care provided by the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians...
