Knocking at the Door of Our Hearts
February 3, 2017
Peaking in the summer of 2014, what has become known as the “Central American unaccompanied minor crisis” grabbed the world’s attention. Tens of thousands of children, scared and alone in a treacherous journey, were fleeing horrific violence and poverty in search of safety and a better life....
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South Africa: Building New Roads to Brighter Futures
January 10, 2017In South Africa, nearly 66 percent of the population is under the age of 30 and millions of people still struggle to survive on less than $1 per day. Opportunities for youth to find long-term employment are increasingly sparse, for their own futures, as well as the future of their country. Thus, a...
Helping Thousands Fleeing Violence and Facing Starvation in South Sudan
January 10, 2017While 2016’s Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is now behind us, Salesian missionaries around the world continue to perform acts of kindness in service to the poor. In South Sudan -- where escalating hostilities have already displaced more than two million people -- Father David Tulimelli has...
Brighter Futures for Homeless Youth in Bolivia
January 10, 2017Today in Bolivia, thousands of vulnerable children live a life they did not choose: a life on the streets, struggling alone just to survive. Many have been abandoned by parents too desperately poor to feed them. Others have escaped violence at home or at school. The Salesian-run Don Bosco Project...
Instruments of Hope
November 7, 2016A house without music is like a body without a soul. And so, in the tradition of Saint John “Don” Bosco -- who first observed this truth more than a century ago -- students at La Cisterna (“The Cistern”) Youth House in Santiago, Chile have breathed new life into this Salesian-run program.
Help Share the Bounty this Thanksgiving
November 7, 2016Before Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti on October 4th -- killing 1,000 people and leaving 50,000 homeless, with food and safe drinking water desperately scarce -- Salesian missionaries throughout the island were already working hard to address a critical issue that will likely get worse before...
Child Sponsorship Program Offers Real Hope
October 14, 2016Young Josephine was in seventh grade at a Salesian school in Kazembe, Zambia when something unimaginable happened: in a heartbreaking attempt to escape the agonizing grip of poverty, Josephine’s parents sold her for a mere $30. Such desperation is one of the many reasons that Father Slawomir...
Heroic Work Saves Youth from Homelessness and Hopelessness
October 14, 2016According to UNICEF, as many as 28 million children around the world are classified as refugees or internally displaced persons -- with millions more likely unaccounted for. We see it every day in the news: so many vulnerable children fleeing the horrors of war, the aftermath of natural disasters,...