Mission News

At the impressionable age of three, Teddy's life was turned upside down. His parents split up, and his mother was left alone to fend for the young family. They struggled to make ends meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a city plagued by poverty and despair.Teddy, as it turned out, was a highly gifted...

Less than two years after Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, the Salesian Timkatec 2 School graduated a record 71 students. What's more, these hardworking young people are now equipped with the skills needed to help rebuild their devastated country.Efforts are currently underway to raise the $16,000...

The news of the epic tragedy in the Horn of Africa is unfolding at a painfully slow pace. While hundreds of thousands of famine victims desperately cling to life, their extreme pain and suffering is going largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.

In response to the massive famine that threatens 12 million people in the Horn of Africa – including Somalia, Northern Kenya and Eastern Ethiopia – the Salesians have undertaken several major projects that could save up to 36,000 lives.The cost of these emergency programs is expected to be...

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,...