For Don Bosco, doing good was like the Violet: a flower hard to see, but whose fragrance everyone can smell. By purchasing a map, you can make your own contribution to the action of educators who spend every day with young people, especially the poorest and most abandoned, those accepted in study support projects, children abandoned by families or new adults taken into Salesian communities.
“Not leaving a youngster alone means being close to him and accompanying him through all stages of life. Especially those who, at the age of 18, find themselves without protection: many of them come from afar, they have landed on our shores alone, hoping for a future without war and violence” explains Fr Francesco Preite, President of Salesians for Social APS. “Others have arrived at our facilities because they lacked a family to take care of them or because they were subjected to criminal proceedings. This is why the work we do online, with all our members in the area, offers these young people a future: from vocational training to school, from home to aggregate spaces to practise sport or be followed in their studies.”
La Violetta di Don Bosco is part of a national campaign to offer support and hospitality to children and young people who are alone or in a vulnerable situation. Until 30 March, in fact, you can also contribute by donating with a text message or a landline call to 45598.
To know all the Violetta piazze where it will be possible to support the initiative, click here
