Mission News

What is it really like to work with some of the most impoverished youth and families around the world? What are the challenges, rewards, heartbreaks and successes? For eight weeks beginning in June, you can hear directly from some of our Salesian missionaries stationed across India, Central...

They are huddled on almost every corner, yet feel mostly invisible -- except for the stares of disgust from passersby who judge them as being inferior, delinquent or criminal. Malnourished, ill and traumatized, their days are awash in alcohol and their hours numbed with sniffing glue, the only...

In early 2010 -- shortly after a devastating earthquake shook Haiti to its core -- Salesian Missions was determined to raise funds for the construction of the Salesian Youth Center at the Politechnique Don Bosco (aka DB Tech) in Fort Liberté. Five years later, that promise has been realized --...

In Cambodia, where an estimated 700,000 people are living with a disability -- full inclusion in the educational system, in job training programs and in employment itself -- often remains elusive. Invisible to society, physically challenged youth therefore face an additional task: how to improve...

They awaited no official requests. They sought no outside advice. Instead, just moments after a catastrophic earthquake ravaged the region of Kathmandu, Nepal -- and at great peril to their own lives -- Salesian missionaries rushed to assist and tend to the victims.

By now, you have heard the heartbreaking news. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the area of Kathmandu, Nepal in the early hours of April 25th -- flattening homes, toppling electrical wires, crumbling water pipes and triggering devastating avalanches.Terrified people are left to cope in the cold...

Late last year, as the Ebola crisis was raging in West Africa, a parallel “epidemic” was emerging:  one that stigmatized little girls and boys who lost one or both parents to the disease. Ostracized by society due to fear and misunderstanding, these innocent orphans had nowhere to turn -- and...