Mission News

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,...

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.