(ANS – Dili) – Youth attending Salesian schools and youth centers in Timor-Leste had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, and “Rise Against Hunger”, an international relief organization that provides food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable. In the first quarter of 2023, Rise Against Hunger provided the funding that allowed the “Don Bosco Foundation” to buy and distribute locally sourced food to Salesian schools, centers and orphanages.

(ANS – Brasilia) - The 9th Social Action National Meeting (ENAS) took place in a totally online format through  Zoom. This year the event’s main topic was "The footprints we leave, the social impact we generate" and brought together the representatives of each of the ten Salesian Provinces of Brazil, who together illustrated a panorama of the impact that Salesian Social Action has in the country.

(ANS - Goma) - On Thursday, May 4, in Goma, the Salesians of the East Delegation of the Central Africa Province (AFC-EST), in collaboration with the NGO "International Volunteering for Development" (VIS) distributed food rations to over 300 families of elderly, disabled, pregnant women and lactating mothers received at the site for displaced people set up at the Salesian center "Don Bosco Ngangi," north of Goma. The Superior of the Central Africa Province (AFC), Fr. Guillermo Basañes, also took part in the distribution of the rations, which included for each family, bags of cornmeal, beans, vegetable oil, cooking salt, and soap.

(ANS - Damascus) - More than three months after the Feb. 6 earthquake and the countless aftershocks that followed, the situation for the people of Syria has not improved significantly. The war's aftermath, the economic and social crisis the country is experiencing, rising prices, lack of food, lack of work... have thrown the population into a great and widespread depressive mood, to which even children are no strangers. Like every year, the Salesians in Syria are now preparing summer activities for children, which this year have a stated purpose: to help nearly 2,000 children, teenagers, and young people overcome the trauma caused by the earthquake.

(ANS - Kigali) - After his visit to Uganda, Fr. Alfred Maravilla, General Councilor for the Missions, drove to Rwanda, together with the Superior of the "St. Charles Lwanga" Vice-Province of Africa Great Lakes (AGL), Fr. Pierre Célestin Ngoboka. Upon their arrival, they were welcomed in the Provincial House by the Salesians representing Salesian communities in the country. During the extended "Salesian goodnight," which included a question-and-answer session, Fr. Maravilla emphasized "the need for a Congregational rethinking of 'missions' in light of ecclesiological development." "Today, 'missions' can no longer be thought of only in geographical terms as in the past. Missions are found in any context where there is a need to proclaim Jesus Christ," he pointed out.