Mission News

Caste, class and gender—more than anything else—contribute to a lack of opportunity among India’s working-age population. Through the Don Bosco Job Placement Network, underserved young adults, nearly half of which are women, recieve the training and support they need to find sustainable,...

You wouldn’t know it from their shouts of laughter, bursting forth as they run along the rows of makeshift shelters their families call home. But these precious girls and boys suffer heartbreaking deprivations that no child should have to endure. That’s why, every day, our Salesian missionaries...

In the central highlands of Vietnam, access to safe drinking water depends on who you are and where you live. But thanks to our many generous friends, more than 2,500 impoverished youth and low-wage laborers no longer have to worry about foregoing other basic needs in order to obtain clean drinking...

Slovenia’s cultural heritage is steeped in craftsmanship—skills that once sustained generations and bound communities together with the ties of shared tradition. Today, Salesian missionaries in Veržej are resurrecting what’s been lost to modernization and the passage of time—by training...

In 2010, Father Jaime Reyes Ratana formed Don Bosco on Wheels to provide wheelchairs and social support to a small group of youth with disabilities in Guadalajara, Mexico. This program has become so successful that Mexico’s government extended a special invitation—to establish the first...

Today in South Africa, more than a third of young people ages 15-24 are extremely poor—largely because they lack access to quality education and employment opportunities. At the Salesian Institute in Cape Town, hundreds of promising students in that same demographic are gaining the knowledge and...

Every morning, Father Elie Nyandwi rises before dawn with the same two questions on his mind: Do we have enough food to feed the children today? And will we have the resources we need to continue? Thanks in part to a new partnership between Salesian Missions and a generous U.S.-based benefactor,...