Mission News

By now, it’s a well-known fact that COVID-19 caused significant learning losses among students, with very few exceptions. Still, some were better able to rebound after pandemic restrictions expired and school resumed as usual. In India, Salesian missionaries have devised creative ways to help...

Growing up in Venezuela hadn’t been easy for young Francis—and it’s no wonder. Pummeled by skyrocketing inflation and the country’s relentless economic crisis, he and his family struggled just to eat most days. Getting an education, finding stable work, and earning a livable wage were three...

In the Dominican Republic, a donation of critical supplies has been improving the health and well-being of hundreds of children and families living in Santo Domingo, Jarabacoa, Hainamosa, La Vega and Santiago. And the items reached their destination thanks to generous support from friends like you....

Each day when she wakes up, Precedence wonders whether there will be breakfast on the table. This is just one of the many heartbreaking challenges of her family’s multi-dimensional poverty. Kind friends like you are making a difference in her life—and in the lives of countless others, too....

Imagine being so passionate about your career goals—and the education required to achieve it—that you would travel three hours just to get to school. Then three hours back home. That’s exactly what young Felisa does each and every day. But the life-changing opportunity our Salesians in...

The two little boys huddled next to each other caked in dust. The blazing midday sun bore down on their bare arms and shoulders, deepening their thirst—nothing new there—yet something was different. Rising out of the ground before them stood a metal pipe bubbling over with fresh and very cold...

As war in Ukraine vies daily for our attention, an equally devastating one also rages on—much further from the reaches of popular awareness. Although the Democratic Republic of the Congo* largely exists outside the headlines these days, our Salesian missionaries on the ground serve as...