(ANS – New Delhi) – The Tsunami of the COVID-19 pandemic that has literally been sweeping across the world in the past 3-4 months, affecting millions of people, taking away lives, livelihoods and economies, has also reached India. In response, the Don Bosco Network-South Asia has launched “Solidarity Viral”, a COVID-19 relief campaign to address this enormous emergency holistically.

(ANS - Rome) - To cope with the psychological impacts that could result from the long isolation caused by the health emergency, the Higher School of Specialization in Clinical Psychology of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) in Rome has decided to activate the project "You stay home ... I'm with you." It is a free online digital psychological counseling platform to guarantee the promotion of a culture based on social solidarity and at the same time continue the formation of specializing psychologists and psychotherapists.

(ANS - Kampala) - The combination of the spread of Covid-19 and the invasion of locusts underway in many countries in eastern Africa is likely to give rise to one of the greatest humanitarian emergencies ever. We've received updates on the situation in Uganda from the Salesian community of Namugongo, at the gates of Kampala, the capital.

(ANS - Quito) - According to international organizations, Ecuador is the country most affected by Covid-19 in Latin America and claim that it will be one of the countries that will suffer the toughest economic consequences following the pandemic. Lenin Moreno, President of Ecuador, said that Covid-19 "struck at a critical moment, after a tough, very hard economic crisis." The Salesians in Ecuador continue to work for the poor and for those who suffer from compulsory confinement.

(ANS - Guatemala City) - Although immersed in a period of many restrictions and quarantines, worldwide, due to COVID-19, the Salesians feel summoned and challenged by these circumstances and have sought ways to continue accompanying young people that God has entrusted to them, why they have proposed a campaign in which they want to reach these young people in the "New Courtyards, or Playgrounds", that is, in social networks.