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Our Mission in Action for Homeless Youth
Fourteen-year-old Francisco has spent half his life begging for money at a busy intersection in Mozambique. René, 17, once hustled to clean windshields and load trucks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti just so...
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Fixing for a Brighter Future in Nicaragua
With approximately 30 percent of the population, or 1.7 million people, living below the official poverty line, Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. While the reasons are many...
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Pathways to Employment for Marginalized Youth in India
With more than 440 vocational training centers located in all 29 of India’s states, the Don Bosco Tech Society (DBTS) is comprised of the largest non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to...
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So That It May Not Happen Again
It’s impossible to see, or to understand, the deep emotional scars hidden behind their stoic expressions. And yet, for those who survived an exceptionally brutal civil war in the Ivory Coast, the...
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Helping Girls Reclaim their Futures in Angola
They are sisters in misfortune: the hundreds of orphaned, abandoned and abused girls and young women living on the streets of Luanda, Angola. Surrounded by garbage, dust and the harsh realities of...
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Planting Seeds of Hope in Argentina
“Dreaming big” isn’t typically something that youth in Rodeo del Medio do. In this rural agricultural community of just over 12,000 people, where employment opportunities are few, students often see...
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Critical Health Care Changes Lives
Young Nataly could have died from the tumor growing undetected in her left leg. Fortunately, her aunt’s foresight led this 17-year-old to a health clinic run by Salesian missionaries in Quito,...
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Tracing the Pattern for Brighter Futures
Despite being a country rich in oil, millions of people in the Republic of Congo—nearly half the country’s population—live in abject poverty. And, despite concerted governmental efforts to combat...
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Changing the Life of a Young Migrant
She is the daughter of a migrant worker who bounced back and forth between Morocco and Italy during her most formative years. As a child, Fatima never dreamed she could overcome the social, cultural...
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Overcoming Adversity in the Solomon Islands
In the poverty-stricken community of Ranadi, a suburb of Honiara in the Solomon Islands, overcoming economic adversity is an uphill battle for families—one often fought, and lost, in the trash heaps of...
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