"Bosco Boys" is a place of growth, rehabilitation, hope; a place where street children find a home and an opportunity for their future.
The Salesians have been here since 1986 welcoming children abandoned by their parents or at risk of abandonment. They are boys and girls who live in the overcrowded slums of Kuwinda and Menyatta, where there is no alternative to the streets, where childhood is not protected and the link with the family of origin often becomes increasingly blurred and eventually disappears, swallowed by misery and promiscuity.
The Sons of Don Bosco approach these vulnerable children on tiptoe and give them an education in a safe place. They protect them and help them, where possible, to renew the relationship with their parents.
On the occasion of the International Day of Street Children, which was held yesterday, 12 April, the Don Bosco Missions Association of Turin renewed their appeal for support for the Bosco Boys, a centre that currently houses 283 children: boys and girls whose stories began in difficulty, including social deprivation and violated childhood, but now are marked mainly by hope and love. As is the case with Leah and Stanley.
They are stories which, for the most part, are still to be written.
