New Hope for the “Children of Conflict”
January 16, 2015
More than 35 million people around the world -- 85 percent of whom are women and children -- have been devastated by war, natural disasters and other catastrophic events. And many of these innocent victims end up in cramped refugee camps -- where they languish for years, with no chance to work or...
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Escaping Poverty Through Tea
January 16, 2015“This project has been a miracle!” So says Lawrence Kerketta, a former tea laborer in the Indian province of Assam. Having once earned less than $1 a day -- an amount that left him unable to cover his family’s basic expenses -- he now owns and operates a modest tea garden that provides income...
Helping Migrant Children in Adversity
November 12, 2014Every day, in impoverished countries around the globe, the same scene plays out over and over: driven by political chaos, violence and dire poverty, desperate parents make the gut-wrenching decision to send their children -- sometimes their only children -- away, sincerely believing they will find...
Help Share the Bounty this Thanksgiving
November 12, 2014It’s hard to imagine: going days -- even months -- with barely anything to eat. Yet according to the United Nations, 805 million people around the globe do just that, because they do not have regular access to adequate food. While erasing chronic hunger will take a worldwide effort, Salesian...
Devastating Drought in Guatemala
October 14, 2014The Guatemalan government has declared a state of emergency after a devastating drought has ravaged the crops -- and livelihoods -- of more than 256,000 families. In a country already battling one of the world’s highest rates of chronic under-nutrition in children under the age of five, the...
Mentoring and Internships for Visually Impaired
October 14, 2014Founded in 2001 by the Salesians, the Pinardi Federation of Madrid, Spain, has long fostered job skills training and work preparation for society’s most vulnerable youth. Now, a new agreement with the Atresmedia Foundation further expands this mission to include the visually impaired.
Don Bosco Students ‘Pay it Forward’ in the Solomon Islands
September 8, 2014More than a decade ago, the film character Trevor McKinney “invented” a bold new idea: the act of paying good deeds forward. Today in the capital city of Honiara, Solomon Islands, students at the Don Bosco Technical Institute are doing just that -- by fabricating and delivering critical items...
Giving Hope to Children in Crisis
September 8, 2014According to United Nations estimates, more than 150 million children worldwide are living outside the care of their families. While the reasons are many (domestic abuse, natural disasters, and loss of a parent to war or disease top the list), their options are few. In Colombia -- as in the more...