Freetown, Sierra Leone - February 2021 - The Salesian house "Don Bosco Fambul", under the guidance of Fr Jorge Mario Crisafulli, is promoting the activities of the newly graduated women of Freetown, distributing a job starter kit to them. The young people, recovered from situations of extreme vulnerability, have received training in the tailoring, tourism, catering and hair care sectors thanks to Salesian programs. "Don Bosco Fambul" is now sponsoring the activities of these women, so that they continue to carry out their new jobs, without having to return to their previous occupations, detrimental to their dignity.

(ANS – Freetown) – Salesian missionaries with St. Augustine’s Parish, located in the Dworzark community within Freetown, Sierra Leone, have partially completed construction of a new church thanks to donor funding provided by “Salesian Missions”, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. As the number of parishioners and the size of the community have increased, Salesian missionaries embarked on a multi-phase project to expand their outgrown church.

(ANS – Freetown) – Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries on earth. More than 60 percent of the population live on less than €1.06 per day. Thirteen years of war and the Ebola epidemic wreaked havoc on the country. More than 500,000 people were displaced, and more than 60,000 children orphaned and left homeless. The Salesians arrived in Freetown in 1994 and had set themselves to witness God’s love for the country’s young people by developing the various works typical of Don Bosco’s spirit — shelters for street children, schools, youth centres and parishes.

Freetown, Sierra Leone - November 2020 - The Salesians of “Don Bosco Fambul” conducted a workshop entitled “Youth4Life” on 20 November on issues concerning the well-being and integral development of young people in Sierra Leone. During the event, which was attended by ten schools in Freetown, various topics were touched upon, including: ecology and the need to preserve the ecosystem; taking care of animals in their environment and stopping unnecessary killings; the importance of the gift of one's life and the adoration of God; the presentation of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) and the importance of learning a trade by attending one of the "Don Bosco Fambul" courses.

Lungi, Sierra Leone - October 2020 - On 3 October, in the church of Mary Help of Christians, parish of the Holy Cross, the Salesian Samuel Sorie Sesay was ordained priest by the laying of hands and the consecratory prayer of Msgr. Natale Paganelli, S.X., Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Makeni.

(ANS - Freetown) - Coronavirus infections in Sierra Leone have been well under control: there are few positive cases and few deaths. The government has lifted restrictions on mobility, but the main concern is that 47% of the population does not have access to running water and social distancing is very difficult to achieve due to the overcrowding in which most of the slum population lives. In this context, where the most serious consequence of the pandemic is poverty, Don Bosco Fambul continues to serve the people most in need.