Mission News
It’s time for our dedicated Food Distribution Appeal—an annual campaign that funds the delivery of crucial nutritional aid to children and families in need around the world. At a time of skyrocketing global hunger, we’re depending on compassionate friends like you to help us stop this rapidly escalating crisis. According to official statistics, the number…
Closing the Gender Gap Opens New Doors
November 7, 2022
Caste, class and gender—more than anything else—contribute to a lack of opportunity among India’s working-age population. Through the Don Bosco Job Placement Network, underserved young adults, nearly half of which are women, recieve the training and support they need to find sustainable, livable-wage employment. The Don Bosco Job Placement Network, and the services it provides,…
Helping Kids be Kids in South Sudan
November 7, 2022
You wouldn’t know it from their shouts of laughter, bursting forth as they run along the rows of makeshift shelters their families call home. But these precious girls and boys suffer heartbreaking deprivations that no child should have to endure. That’s why, every day, our Salesian missionaries focus on relieving the burdens of their displaced…
Clean Water for Vietnam
October 19, 2022
In the central highlands of Vietnam, access to safe drinking water depends on who you are and where you live. But thanks to our many generous friends, more than 2,500 impoverished youth and low-wage laborers no longer have to worry about foregoing other basic needs in order to obtain clean drinking water or getting sick…
Old Traditions, New Possibilities
October 19, 2022
Slovenia’s cultural heritage is steeped in craftsmanship—skills that once sustained generations and bound communities together with the ties of shared tradition. Today, Salesian missionaries in Veržej are resurrecting what’s been lost to modernization and the passage of time—by training students to produce, market and sell ancestral handicrafts. What’s more, these same students are boosting their…
New Opportunities and Hope for Disabled Youth
October 19, 2022
In 2010, Father Jaime Reyes Ratana formed Don Bosco on Wheels to provide wheelchairs and social support to a small group of youth with disabilities in Guadalajara, Mexico. This program has become so successful that Mexico’s government extended a special invitation—to establish the first comprehensive spinal cord injury center in the country. Last month, that…
A Meaningful Gift from the Heart
September 15, 2022
Every morning, Father Elie Nyandwi rises before dawn with the same two questions on his mind: Do we have enough food to feed the children today? And will we have the resources we need to continue? Thanks in part to a new partnership between Salesian Missions and a generous U.S.-based benefactor, the answer to both…
New Beginnings for Youth in Despair
September 15, 2022
Paulo was just 10 years old when he saw a friend fatally shot during an attempted robbery. Sadly, he wasn’t really shocked; the two boys, along with three other friends, had been spending the majority of their time on the streets where—with each passing day—their future prospects grew dimmer in a rearview mirror clouded by…
Accelerating Toward Brighter Futures
September 15, 2022
Today in South Africa, more than a third of young people ages 15-24 are extremely poor—largely because they lack access to quality education and employment opportunities. At the Salesian Institute in Cape Town, hundreds of promising students in that same demographic are gaining the knowledge and skills they need to lift themselves out of poverty.…
Nurturing Healthier Futures
August 19, 2022
In the Xavante village of Santa Fé, Brazil, access to health services is complicated. Multi-dimensional poverty among the families who live there, combined with the remoteness of their community and few nearby physicians, leaves them especially vulnerable to otherwise preventable illnesses—with children’s outcomes among the worst. Operation Mato Grosso aims to change that by bringing…