Education and skills training are a set of golden keys that can unlock the chains of poverty. Unfortunately, far too many youth in Egypt lack access to its power—a situation further complicated by global migration. Thanks to our generous donors ...
Eight-year-old Yoselin works hard in school. Yet—like many impoverished parents in Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia—her father and mother worried constantly about whether they could afford the tuition. That’s when kind Salesian Missions’ friends like ...
This year marks our 75th year of service to impoverished youth and families around the world. Since 1947, we have changed the lives and futures of three million disadvantaged children ... and counting!
Today, more than 3.5 million people—many of them precious children—have been uprooted, displaced and deeply affected by conflict in Afghanistan. In neighboring Pakistan, at Don Bosco Lahore in Peshawar, our dedicated Salesian missionaries ...
Before our Clean Water Initiative brought new wells to the Bono region of Ghana, thousands of residents in villages across the area walked treacherous miles in search of unreliable, and oftentimes contaminated, water sources. Today, their lives ...
Throughout Nigeria’s urban centers, the mounting pressures of extreme poverty erupts onto the streets—in the form of thousands of vulnerable youth who struggle to survive outside their families’ care. Chindu (not his real name) was one of them ...
Across Colombia, millions of people facing extreme poverty live in areas rich with mineral resources—where informal work in unlicensed mines easily hides labor exploitation as economic opportunity. In three different mining communities near ...
Before little Veronica ever stepped foot inside the Hogar María Auxiliadora in Bolivia, Salesian volunteer Eden Gordon was determined the child would learn one thing if nothing else: exactly what it felt like to be loved. And there’s no doubt...
Beginning this month, we joyfully celebrate the 75th anniversary of Salesian Missions—a significant milestone in our long and fruitful partnership with generous friends like you. Together, we have helped more than three million children around the...
Placide’s family is desperately poor. So poor, in fact, that he often wonders whether there will be enough food to eat on any given day. Many times, there isn’t. It is the sad reality of living in Burundi, a country where more than 90 percent of...
Despite positive economic growth and recent improvements to quality of life, food insecurity and malnutrition remain stubborn adversaries in the fight against poverty and hunger in Rwanda—where more than 60 percent of the population still lives on...
