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(ANS - Madrid) - "Educational Second Chance" is an initiative of the Employment Area of ​​Pinardi, Federation of Social Platforms of the Salesians of Spain-St James Major, which aims to encourage the educational return of young people who work or seek a job and do not have the basic qualification. The school offers 10 places and is part of the "Second Chance School" model. The success of the program is due to two factors: the commitment of young people to their development and individualized personal support. All of this year's students passed their respective High School and Bachelor's degree modules and were promoted to the next course or gained access to university.

(ANS - Addis Ababa) - Ethiopia closed schools and universities for the pandemic three months ago. All at home, even the teachers of the Salesian technical school in Addis Ababa, the heart of the "Bosco Children", directed by Fr Angelo Regazzo. But he had a problem. Indeed, a hundred. “We could not send the children gathered from the streets of Addis Ababa to the streets, they who had not yet finished the rehabilitation process to be reintegrated into their families. We would have lost them,” explains the Salesian, who opted for a radical choice. General lockdown: Salesians, young people, cooks, social workers, guardians and some workers, including the driver. All inside.

(ANS - Santiago el Estero) - The oratory of Santiago del Estero continues to advance its project "Jóvenes campesinos, hacia una participación responsable y sustentable" (Young farmers, towards responsible and sustainable participation). The project has been carried out since 2018 at the Salesian house with a basic training in environmental matters that includes workshops, separate waste collection and the creation of agro-ecological gardens - an element of success that is now intended to be extended to every home.

(ANS - New Delhi) - The news from India is shocking: since the first coronavirus infection was confirmed on January 30, the cases have not stopped increasing. To date, India has recorded 440,000 cases of contagion, and 14,011 victims, and as these figures continue to grow, containment measures are beginning to be lifted.

(ANS - Rome) - Tomorrow, June 24, 2020, it will be exactly 150 years since Carlo Gastini, together with other young people from the Salesian Oratory, delivered coffee cups to Don Bosco as a thank you for the education received and on the occasion of the feast day of St. John the Baptist. The solemn anniversary is both an occasion for a profound reflection on the meaning of the mission of Don Bosco's Past Pupil in the Salesian Family in the Church and in society today, and opportunities for launching numerous initiatives.

(ANS - Rome) - The 150th anniversary of Venerable Andrea Beltrami's birth, SDB, born in Omegna on June 24, 1870, will take place on June 24th. After receiving a deeply Christian education within his family, it developed in the Salesian boarding school of Lanzo where he enters in October 1883; in 1886, he received the religious habit from Don Bosco. In the two years spent in Turin-Valsalice he entered into a spiritual friendship with the Polish prince Augusto Czartoryski, now blessed. The young Beltrami is called to assist Fr Augusto, suffering from tuberculosis. Fr Beltrami also falls ill with the same disease. On February 20, 1891, the first symptoms of an illness that would later undermine his health and lead him to the grave.

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