A beautiful home, the warm place of welcome and of one's own security, reduced to a pile of rubble; the objects of one's daily life reduced to mute witnesses to missile attacks: this is the sad experience of Erika, a girl from Irpin', in the Kyiv region, who with her family lost everything she had. It is the sad experience of thousands of Ukrainian families.
Fifty young women who live at the Salesian Surakshita Home, located in the town of Ravulapalem in Andhra Pradesh, India, were supported through donor funding . Surakshita Home provides living facilities for young women who have been in legal trouble. There are dorms, bathrooms, a dining hall, a work room and a training hall.
In the long months of work leading up to the official release of the Strenna message for the New Year, the Sector for Social Communication, at the request of the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, contacted various social communication centers and graphic designers from various parts of the world to come up with their proposals for the poster that accompanies the message.
"One gesture, one life" is the leitmotiv of the urgent interventions that the Salesian coordination of the East Delegation of the "Central Africa" Province (AFC-EST) are carrying out in collaboration with the Salesian NGO "Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo - International Volunteering for Development” (VIS).
More than 360 youth received nutritional support at Don Bosco Kansebula, located in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco.