(ANS – Marseilles) – Marseilles is undoubtedly a Salesian city where Don Bosco's presence is strong. For three years now, there has been a group called the Steering Committee which brings together the Directors of Social Action Centres (members of the Don Bosco Action Sociale - DBAS network) and those from the schools, under Salesian supervision. It is a solid network that can strengthen and develop teamwork at several levels and that has decided to produce a brochure to present the richness of the Salesian presence in Marseilles. This effort is being carried out by the Don Bosco High School in Marseilles.

(ANS - Brussels) - From 11 to 13 October 2023, the Principals of the schools of the "Don Bosco" network of France, Belgium-South, Morocco and Tunisia gathered for the traditional seminar at the beginning of the new academic year. A three-day itinerant seminar in Belgium, to rediscover and deepen Don Bosco's adage "honest citizens and good Christians. In the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - that is, the area corresponding to southern Belgium, an area as large as two French regions - there are no less than nine schools, including five "Don Bosco Institutes", which are frequented by almost 6,000 young people every year: an unparalleled concentration!

(ANS – New Rochelle) -  More than 340 million women and girls will live in extreme poverty by 2030 and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity, according to the recent “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023” report released by UN Women and United Nations Department on Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).