SRI LANKA: Giving Child Soldiers an Escape Route, Helping Girl Soldiers...
(MissionNewswire) Childhood should be a time of innocence and schooling. But that’s not the reality for youth in Sri Lanka being recruited to fight the country’s civil war. For these youth, it’s...
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WORLD REFUGEE DAY: Salesian Missions Highlights Educational Programs...
(MissionNewswire)Â In countries around the globe, Salesian missionaries are assisting close to 400,000 refugees and internally displaced persons whose lives have been affected by war, persecution,...
View ArticleINDIA: Salesian New Beginnings Program Graduates 840 Sri Lankan Refugees
(MissionNewswire)Â The Salesian-run New Beginnings program, operating out of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, recently celebrated 840 Sri Lankan refugees in a graduation ceremony on July 5 at...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Salesian Missionaries Provide Technical Training to Poor Youth to...
(MissionNewswire)Â The Don Bosco Vocational Training Center, located in the city of Nochchiyagama in northern Sri Lanka, is providing underprivileged youth an opportunity to gain the skills necessary to...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Salesian Missionaries Assisting Victims of Intense Flooding and...
(MissionNewsire) Floodwaters and landslides across Sri Lanka have forced more than 500,000 people to leave their homes in search of safety and shelter after three days of incessant rains and...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Salesian Missionaries Provide Relief After Devastating Floods and...
(MissionNewswire) Sri Lanka’s southwest monsoon season, which runs from May to September, has brought unusually heavy rains even for the season. The most recent rains at the end of May caused major...
View ArticleUSA / SRI LANKA: Long Island University post-graduate students help raise...
(MissionNewswire) In May 2017, two Long Island University (LIU) post-graduate students, Jake Murphy and Thomas Schoen, presented at an international marketing conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital...
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SRI LANKA: 60 boys receive education and shelter, have basic needs met at Don...
SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Sixty boys are receiving education and shelter and having their basic needs met at Don Bosco Murunkan, located in Mannar, Sri Lanka, thanks to donor funding received from...
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SRI LANKA: Families facing poverty receive pandemic relief supplies
Don Bosco Development Center is providing relief supplies to those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Development Center in Dungalpitiya,...
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SRI LANKA: Don Bosco Sri Lanka provides 300 war widows with food and hygiene...
All Salesian institutions in Sri Lanka have been mobilizing to deliver assistance and supplies SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Sri Lanka is reaching vulnerable communities with food aid, health...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Youth organize beach clean-up day
Collected plastic donated to orphanage that will sell it for profit to recycling company (MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Youth Association, part of Don Bosco Dungalpitiya in Sri Lanka, organized a beach...
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SRI LANKA: Vulnerable children receive support
Bosco Sevana Center provides nutrition, medical care and educational support SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Bosco Sevana Center, in Uswetakeiyawa, Sri Lanka, started more than 25 years ago as a...
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SRI LANKA: More than 6,000 people receive rice-meal donation
Salesian Missions works with Rise Against Hunger to help address severe food shortages SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Development Center in Dungalpitiya, a municipality in the city of Negombo,...
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SRI LANKA: More than 250 youth attend career guidance event
Salesians have established technical institutions across the country SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) More than 250 youth from Mankulam and Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, received valuable career guidance and...
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SRI LANKA: College complex expands
Don Bosco Institute inaugurates new college complex for more than 400 students SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Institute, in the town of Narammala, Sri Lanka, recently inaugurated a new college...
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SRI LANKA: Tech lab inaugurated
Don Bosco Institute expanding to meet needs of students SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries launched the High Tech IT Lab at Don Bosco Institute of Higher Vocational Education, located in...
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SRI LANKA: Education programs launched
New initiative in response to challenges faced by schools SRI LANKA (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries in the coastal community of Dungalpitiya, Sri Lanka, are offering free after-school courses,...
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