Country: Madagascar
MADAGASCAR: Salesian Missions donors help Salesian vocational training center graduates launch small business enterprise
The project is helping to train Salesian graduates and give them the support needed to open a construction business. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (March 14, 2019) Salesian missionaries in the Fianarantsoa region of Madagascar are able to assist 10 graduates of the local Salesian vocational training center in launching a small business enterprise thanks to Salesian…
Feeding Starving Street Children around the Globe
Due to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, recession in Europe, natural disasters in Asia and Africa, and many other factors, more and more children have nowhere else to live but on the street. In more than 130 countries around the world, Salesian missionaries have vowed to rescue as many homeless youth as they can.…
Expand an Elementary School and Refurbish Outdated Classrooms
Build 8 new classrooms and refurbish old classrooms to accomodate more needy children. This project is located at the Salesians of Don Bosco mission site in Mahajanga, Madagascar. The total cost to purchase the land, construction and materials = $21,752.00
Madagascar: The Future Begins with Youth
Madagascar is a country rich in natural resources — oil, diamonds and gold — yet its people are among the poorest in the world. In fact, 92 percent of the population lives on just $2 per day: a situation so unimaginable that the United Nations ranks the nation 154 out of 188 on its Human…
Help Graduates of a Salesian Training Center Start and Operate a Small Business Enterprise
The project will train former students from a Salesian vocational training center in management, operations and the development of a plan to establish a construction business. The Salesians will work to network and connect this new business within the community to help the young entrepreneurs acquire customers. In the meantime, the Salesians will employ them…
International Women’s Day: Salesian Missions Highlights Programs That Empower Girls and Young Women Through Education
Salesian Missions joins the United Nations and its international partners in celebrating International Women’s Day, celebrated each year on March 8. The day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women around the globe while focusing the world’s attention on areas requiring further action. Each year, International Women’s Day focuses on a theme. This…
Putting Theory into Practice in Madagascar
During his long and faithful lifetime of working for, and with, marginalized youth, Saint John “Don” Bosco emphasized the notion of “practicing what’s been taught.” Today in Madagascar, 29 students attending the Salesian Vocational Training Center in the capital city of Antananarivo are doing just that — further strengthening the knowledge and skills they need…
Providing Humanitarian Relief During Disasters
The stories rarely, if ever, make the headlines: news of natural disasters in remote and impoverished communities far from the orbit of entertainment-thirsty attention. And yet — whenever and wherever catastrophe strikes — our Salesian missionaries are among the first to respond.
From Misery to Stability in Madagascar
“This is misery, not poverty.” So describes the plight of Madagascar’s people – by Bishop Rosario Vella, a Salesian missionary in Ambanja, Madagascar. This island nation of more than 22 million people is one of the poorest in the world – where education is not guaranteed, and illiteracy tops 31 percent. In response, Salesian missionaries…
Loaves & Fishes: Your gift multiplied 5 times!
With our annual Loaves and Fishes Appeal, your gift for needy children will multiply FIVE TIMES!Jesus said, “I have compassion on the multitude… they have been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.” He took seven loaves of bread and a few little fishes, gave thanks and blessed them… and they ate and…