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Guatemala City, Guatemala – March 2024 - The first Annual Ordinary Assembly of the Association of Salesian Cooperators (ASC) in Guatemala was held on Sunday, 10 March. It involved members from the six local centres as well as some from one of the two formation centres. The Assembly began with the greeting and blessing and the Salesian Good Morning from Fr Juan Carlos Mesén, National Delegate for the ASC in Guatemala. Each director and coordinator then presented their activities. The event took place in the Great Hall of the Salesian Theologate in the San Juan Bosco Parish and María Auxiliadora Shrine in Guatemala City.

Riobamba, Ecuador – March 2024 - The Santo Tomás Apóstol Educational Unit in Riobamba (UESTAR) experienced an important event on 15 March 2024, with the blessing and opening of its modern robotics laboratories. Institutional authorities, parents, students and teachers participated in the event. The Dean of UESTAR, Ximena Díaz, opened the ceremony by welcoming all those present and highlighted the value of this new space for the institution. Subsequently, the blessing of the laboratories was carried out by Fr Fausto Siavichay, SDB, from the Riobamba Community, who stressed the importance of technological progress in harmony with ethical and moral principles. The authorities present, led by Fr Rubinsky Sánchez, Rector of the Riobamba community, and Kléber Saltos, President of the Central Committee of Parents, stressed the importance of these robotics laboratories in the context of secondary education and technological development in the country. The need to train highly qualified students in this field, suitable for facing the challenges and exploiting the opportunities offered by robotics in contemporary society, was also stressed. Subsequently, guests had the opportunity to visit the modern facilities of the laboratory led by UESTAR professors who illustrated the latest equipment and technologies available for research and learning in this area.

Kinshasa, DR Congo – March 2024 – From 20 to 22 March the Salesians of Don Bosco organised a round table on the challenges of Technical and Vocational Training in the Country. Numerous participants came from different Salesian works in the Central Africa Province (AFC) and the Africa Congo Congo Vice-Province (ACC). Participants discussed digital skills, sharing successful best practices in the field of Vocational Training in order to contribute to the development and professional integration of young Congolese.

South Sudan – March 2024 – The young people at Don Bosco Mission Tonj and Don Bosco Gumbo, as part of their Lenten activities, visited a prison and an orphanage respectively to share their Easter joy with the people there. Young people at Don Bosco Mission Tonj, during their visit to the prison, participated in the celebration of the Eucharist together with the inmates and at the end of the Mass they distributed the foodstuffs that they managed to buy with their Lenten savings. The young people from  Don Bosco Gumbo visited the orphanage in Juba, sharing a moment of joy with the children. In addition to sharing the Word of God, the young people conducted games for children and distributed food and basic necessities that they purchased with their Lenten collections.

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