Mission News

Feb 2025 enews -story #1 - New Tools for Learning - Sri Lanka - girl in a white shirt using a laptop computer in a computer lab at school
New Tools for Learning

In a rural country where the vast majority of residents suffer from poverty, Sri Lankan youth have very few chances to pursue a better life. Fortunately, with the support of caring friends like you, Salesian Missions has funded new laptop computers that will help open doors to a much brighter...

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Feb 2025 enews - story #2 - India - Making School Accessible for Impoverished Youth - Don Bosco Academy green bench in courtyard
Making School Accessible for Impoverished Youth

Nalgonda, India, a small town in the center of the agricultural district, has always suffered from poverty and underdevelopment. Recently, alternating periods of water scarcity and devastating floods have prevented farmers from growing crops needed for food, making it increasingly difficult to...

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Feb 2025 enews - story #3 - Nigeria - A Surge of Abandoned Youth - three young boys grateful for a change at an education and better future
A Surge of Abandoned Youth

The situation is dire. Growing wealth disparities and the high rate of people fleeing their homeland due to internal conflict have caused a surge in the number of abandoned children living on the streets in Nigeria. “These vulnerable young victims face abuse, exploitation or worse. Without...

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Jan 2025 enews story - drc - hope amidst crisis - Salesian missionaries working and living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are delivering hope and essential aid amidst two emergencies
Hope Amidst Crisis in the DRC

Salesian missionaries working and living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo* (DRC) are delivering hope and essential aid amidst two emergencies: escalating violence that is forcing thousands of families from their homes; and a surge in the mpox virus that mostly threatens young children, the...

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Press Releases

Feb 2025 PR - Colombia - INT’L DAY AGAINST THE USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS: Salesian Missions highlights support for former child soldiers
INT’L DAY AGAINST THE USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS: Salesian Missions highlights support for former child soldiers

Salesians work with former child soldiers to overcome trauma, reintegrate into society. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 12, 2025) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in honoring Feb. 12 as Red Hand Day,...

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CATHOLIC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Salesian Missions highlights medical programs for people in need around the globe

Salesian missionaries offer more than 150 medical clinics and hospitals in mostly rural areas.  NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 11, 2025) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins Catholic organizations around the globe in honoring the Catholic World Day of the Sick....

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PARAGUAY: Missionaries build residence thanks in part to Salesian Missions

Facility provides safe space for students. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 10, 2025) Salesian missionaries with the Chaco Mission in Paraguay have a residence for students and visitors thanks in part to funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The funding from...

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GHANA: Students benefit from new computers thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions

Don Bosco Technical Institute prepares students for their future with technology. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 3, 2025) Don Bosco Technical Institute, located in Ashaiman, Ghana, has new computers to aid the education and career development of students thanks to funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S....

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News Coverage

(PR Web) Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival to be held in Manhattan for the first time

NEW YORK, NY Sept. 25, 2024 (Excerpt)  Young filmmakers from around the globe will highlight their creativity through original, short films about how to take positive action to combat climate change during the grand finale of the third annual 2024 Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF...

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(National Catholic Reporter) UN Water Conference shows global consensus on universal right to water

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...

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(ACI Africa) On World Water Day, Salesian entity reviews its “Clean Water Initiative” in Africa

MAPUTO, 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...

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(ACI Africa) Salesians in Burundi boost learning in partnership realizing “access to better nutrition”

BUJUMBURA, 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...

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