Mission News

Mar 2024 - enews story 3 - Zambia - A Silver Jubilee of Hope
Big Plans, Bright Dreams

Across Makululu, Zambia, homeless youth often become society’s failures—the lack of education, employment opportunities, and meaningful social support leads to despair, substance abuse, and family breakdown. At Don Bosco Children’s Home, vulnerable youth with nowhere else to turn find refuge...

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Mar 2024 enews - story 2 - Ecuador - Meeting God on the Soccer Field
Meeting God on the Soccer Field

In February 2020, Father Agustin Togo had a vision—to engage and inspire Achuar children through sports. Specifically, he wanted to use soccer to motivate at-risk youth to attend school, and build their spiritual, moral values to guide their lives and paths forward. Four years later, the Yankuam...

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Mar 2024 enews - story 1 - sierra leone - Big Plans, Bright Dreams
A Silver Jubilee of Hope

Creativity. Independence. Love, patience and kindness. At Don Bosco Fambul’s Child Care Center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Salesian missionaries nurture the first two qualities with an abundance of the other three. And brighter futures blossom because of it—as our own Father Gabriel Stawowy...

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Feb 2024 enews story 1 - DRC - Living by Don Bosco’s Example
Living by Don Bosco’s Example

Hardship is a constant fact of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—where far too many people already struggle to get by on just $1 a day. Now, escalating conflict is only making things worse. Thankfully, a group of dedicated past Salesian pupils have delivered a small glimmer of...

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Press Releases

INT’L WOMEN’S DAY: Salesian programs focus on inclusion for girls and women

Programs provide opportunities for education and training. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (March 8, 2024) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8. The day...

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UGANDA: Students receive new school uniforms, supplies through funding from Salesian Missions

200 children, ages 5-13, from families most in need. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (March 4, 2024) Students attending Don Bosco Primary School, part of Don Bosco Children and Life Mission (Don Bosco CALM), in Namugongo, northeast of Kampala, Uganda, received new school uniforms, sports uniforms and school...

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NAMIBIA: New parish house built with funding from Salesian Missions

5,000 people in community to access youth programs and the parish. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb. 27, 2024) Salesians in Rundu, Namibia, have a new house thanks to funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The house will directly benefit 11 Salesians, five of...

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SIERRA LEONE: Vulnerable youth have new chapel through Salesian Missions

Don Bosco Fambul is leading provider of child-welfare programs. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Feb 26, 2024) Youth at Don Bosco Fambul in Freetown, one of Sierra Leone’s leading child-welfare organizations, have a new chapel thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the...

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News Coverage

(National Catholic Reporter) UN Water Conference shows global consensus on universal right to water

NEW YORK, N.Y. March 30, 2023 (Excerpt) The first day of the U.N. Water Conference, March 22, was international World Water Day, a day marked by Salesian Missions, the New York-based development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians have made clean water projects a priority because...

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(ACI Africa) On World Water Day, Salesian entity reviews its “Clean Water Initiative” in Africa

MAPUTO, Mozambique March 27, 2023 (Excerpt) On the occasion of World Water Day marked March 22, officials of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), have reviewed the entity’s global project dubbed “Clean Water...

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(ACI Africa) Salesians in Burundi boost learning in partnership realizing “access to better nutrition”

BUJUMBURA, Burundi March 13, 2023 (Excerpt) Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in Burundi are boosting learning at their institution in the country’s Catholic Diocese of Ngozi in a partnership that is realizing “access to better nutrition”. In a March 6...

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(ACI Africa) War victims in North Kivu, DR Congo, benefit from Salesians’ “improved” facilities

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo Feb. 28, 2023 (Excerpt) At least 1,800 victims of violent conflicts in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have benefited from the medical care provided by the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians...

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