Mission News

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on July 12th to protect schools and hospitals during conflict. As part of the ruling, the Security Council says it will impose targeted measures on those who violate children's rights through such attacks.

Two months ago, a five year old boy named Peter came to Don Bosco Deodurga, a Salesian boarding school for some of the poorest children in Southern India. He clung in fear to his 11-year-old sister Mariamma, while their other sister, Shantamma, looked equally scared. It was the first day at what...

A massive tragedy is unfolding in northern Africa. The worst food crisis of the past century is forcing 12 million people to seek desperate measures to survive. Conditions are worse than the famine of 1984-85 when approximately 1 million people in Ethiopia and Sudan died.Our missionaries in Kakuma,...

Our Feeding Center in Dilla, Ethiopia, provides more than just meals to hungry children and their families … it saves precious lives. Just ask Jayne Feeney.Jayne is one of our Salesian Lay Missioners. She left the comforts of her life in America to immerse herself amongst the poorest of the poor,...

Deysi was born on March 15th, 2003, in Okinawa, Bolivia. When she was three months old, her mother went outside to look for food, leaving Deysi and her two older brothers inside their home – a small wooden structure with a plastic tarp roof.

Nearly three out of every four children in Ethiopia are deprived of an education. Many parents struggle to provide for their families by begging on the streets for food and money. Children are forced to do the same, and as a result sacrifice the chance to attend school.

In a country where one out of every three citizens barely survives on less than a dollar a day – and where forty percent of children are chronically malnourished – Cambodia's booming tourism business is generating new opportunities for employment and financial independence.The Salesians in...