Feeding Starving Street Children around the Globe
May 7, 2018
Due to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, recession in Europe, natural disasters in Asia and Africa, and many other factors, more and more children have nowhere else to live but on the street. In more than 130 countries around the world, Salesian missionaries have vowed to rescue as many...
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Through Water, Dignity
May 4, 2018On March 22, Salesian Missions joined the international community in recognizing World Water Day — an annual event highlighting the increasingly critical challenges surrounding the availability of safe, clean water. With an estimated 2.1 billion people now lacking access to this essential...
Excelling Through Poverty
April 5, 2018Fourteen years ago, young Eduardo Menjivar Valencia had no choice but to drop out of school and work on his parents’ farm near San Pablo Tacachico, El Salvador. Then, an unexpected opportunity transformed his life — one that has permanently lifted him, and his family, out of poverty. A bright...
After the Hurricane, Ready to Face any Challenge
April 5, 2018“If there’s a way to help, we’ll always find it.” So says Sister Magna Martinez, a Salesian missionary serving at Colegio Maria Auxiliadore (Mary, Help of Christians) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. More than six months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, Sr. Magna and her colleagues...
Transforming Sierra Leone’s Children
March 12, 2018“Look, I already understand: it is not Fambul that changes boys; it is Don Bosco, because he has already changed me.” That wisdom, combined with old-fashioned persistence, earned young Osman a place at Don Bosco Fambul — and with it, the potential to transform what once promised to be a grim...
Sparking Children’s Curiosity in Myanmar
March 12, 2018It sounds like something out of a movie: a young missionary, serving amid an isolated rural tribe, saving a newborn’s life and forever ingratiating himself to the people. Yet this is exactly what Father Charles Sau Thi Han Lwing did more than a decade ago. This single act — a true manifestation...
Restoring Dignity to Victims of Abuse
March 12, 2018The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been plagued by intense, brutal conflict for more than 20 years. More than five million people have died — with as many as 1,000 casualties per day, according to some estimates. Sadly, those who survive face collateral humanitarian crises that further...
Good Things in Small Packages: New Hope for Children in the Slums
January 11, 2018In 2009, inspired by the spirit of Don Bosco, a young Italian named Massimiliano Schilirò launched his personal vocation: to travel the world, as simply and as humbly as possible, in order to learn about, advocate for, and improve the circumstances of marginalized children and families. This past...