Turin, Italy - November 2022 - About two hundred secondary school students gathered at the Valdocco Oratory for SYM Day. A much-wished for opportunity for the students to get together with other young people from their house, but also with other peers they met at camps last summer and beyond. The special guest of this edition was the Paralympic champion in the 100 m freestyle, Antonio Fantin, who shared his testimony and good wishes to everyone in the Teatro Grande Valdocco, and then devoted a moment to those who wished to ask him questions and curiosities. The day then continued in cheerfulness with games, dances, and a time for confessions, divided into the two-year/triennium, concluding with the celebration of Mass together. All organized by the animators who with dedication managed to give the young people a beautiful and full day.

Source: salesianipiemonte.info

Guadalajara, Spain - November 2022 - From November 11-13, the Participation Forum, Confederation Assembly, and SYM worked in parallel form in different spaces. About 70 boys, girls, and young people met at the 8th State Child and Youth Participation Forum, organized by the Don Bosco Confederation, which took place at the Salesian work in Guadalajara. This event also had the first work forum of the Assembly of the Don Bosco Confederation, together with the Salesian Youth Movement. During the weekend these two working groups worked in parallel in different spaces. The Forum was a collaborative stage for dialogue, reflection and discussion, where young people from the Salesian Youth Centers, Oratories, and Federations expressed the concerns, needs, and opportunities that the Associations experience through the voices of the protagonists: boys, girls, and young people who feel the youth centers as a home where they share and grow. The Salesian Youth Movement and the Assembly of the Don Bosco Confederation, too, had a space to take up common points and convergences of both groups, recalling the reason for their service: to facilitate and bet on entrepreneurship and youth leadership, and to take care of the Salesian identity by carrying on the evangelizing and educating work, thus strengthening the capacity to transform society. All this, together with the accompaniment of SDB and FMA who also participated in this moment of sharing and listening.

Kafroun, Syria - November 2022 - On November 18 and 19, the Salesian Don Bosco Oratory in Kafroun organized a meeting for high school and college youth focused on the figure of St. Artemide Zatti. The meeting’s overall goal was to define one’s direction of life, and the need to dedicate one's life to God, whether a religious or a lay person, so that actions are performed for the glory of God and the common good. The event included times of play, sharing of experiences, prayer, and personal encounters with Jesus, in an atmosphere of harmony among the youth and total integration. The activity was organized and accompanied by the lay people of the Don Bosco Center in Kafroun and the Salesians.