Mission News
Young Earthquake Victims Find Hope at Don Bosco Youth Center
February 3, 2026
For families living in Mandalay — Myanmar’s second-largest city — daily life is filled with uncertainty and hardship. In March 2025, a powerful earthquake severely damaged the city’s infrastructure, leaving millions of people in crisis. Residents struggling to recover from this catastrophic...
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Pakistan Flood Victims Grateful for Your Support
February 3, 2026Families in Lahore, Pakistan continue to recover from the devastating 2025 floods. While the waters have receded, the challenges remain: homes damaged, schools closed, and countless families still struggling with food insecurity and displacement. Ongoing relief efforts are helping to rebuild lives...
Impoverished Community in Nigeria Rejoices Clean Water
February 3, 2026In Onitsha, Nigeria, your generosity helped fund a new borehole at the Don Bosco Secondary School — bringing reliable access to clean water and transforming daily life on campus. This vital improvement has created a safer, healthier and more inclusive environment where students can learn with...
Dozens of Children Rescued from Child Labor Abuse
January 5, 2026Throughout India, vulnerable children sadly become victims of child labor every day. Each child that goes out onto the streets to work is subject to a number of child rights violations, including: working for hours without breaks and little to no food or water; being absent from school; wandering...
Press Releases
GUATEMALA: Young women from Talita Kumi centers receive healthy nutrition through Rise Against Hunger’s partnership with Salesian Missions
February 9, 2026
Salesian sisters include educational content related to nutrition NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 9, 2026) Young women attending Talita Kumi centers in Guatemala had access to better nutrition as a result of a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, and...
Read Full StorySOUTH SUDAN: More than 5,000 internally displaced people receive better nutrition through partnership between Rise Against Hunger and Salesian Missions
February 5, 2026Meals distributed at various locations, including schools. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 5, 2026) More than 5,000 people, most of whom are internally displaced in Gumbo, on the outskirts of the city of Juba, South Sudan*, had access to better nutrition during the first half of 2025. The food shipment was...
TANZANIA: Don Bosco Novitiate completes renovation thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
February 4, 2026Improvements benefit novices, youth and community. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 4, 2026) Top of FormDon Bosco Novitiate in Morogoro, Tanzania, completed a renovation project thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Fifteen years of use,...
HAITI: Meals provide nutrition for 200 youth through a partnership between Rise Against Hunger and Salesian Missions
February 3, 2026Teacher says nourishment is key to learning, development. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 3, 2026) Nearly 200 youth attending programs at Lakay Don Bosco Cap-Haïtien in Haiti received nutritious food through a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco,...
News Coverage
(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Monday Starter: Admist violence in the world, UISG calls for global day of prayer
August 14, 2025
Aug. 11, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesians mark two international UN days this month The development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, which includes Salesian sisters, are marking two international dates established by the United Nations — International Youth Day on Aug. 12 and World Humanitarian Day on...
Read Full Story(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Salesians mark UN day for children in conflict
June 2, 2025June 2, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, is joining efforts to promote the United Nations’ annual International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, marked on June 4. The day, which received the U.N. designation in 1982,...
(OSV) Archbishop encourages hope as death toll in Myanmar surpasses 3,000
April 7, 2025April 4, 2025 (Excerpt) Burmese Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay said that despite the suffering caused by the deadly earthquake, the people of Myanmar are clinging to hope in God’s mercy. In an interview published April 3 with Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization,...
(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Monday Starter: Salesians mark UN’s World Water Day
March 22, 2025March 22, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions joined other humanitarian groups on March 22 in marking World Water Day, a United Nations-led commemoration to bring attention to the need for safe, clean water. In an announcement, the Salesians noted that in addition to drawing attention to the...
