(ANS - Kapolowe) - Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy, is a disease that causes not only suffering but also social stigma. Those who are infected, even if they are cured, continue to suffer the clinical consequences and often also social consequences. It is to these people in need of recognition and friendship that young members of the missionary circles of the South of the Democratic Republic of Congo demonstrated their closeness. On Sunday 8 May they visited them and shared with them the results of the solidarity campaign carried out during Lent.

La Laguna, Spain - 28 April 2016 - The University of Saint Louis (Madrid campus) has granted the National Award for Science and Technology for students to an aerospace project called BoscoverySat done by the pupils of the Salesian educational centre of La Cuesta, La Laguna, Tenerife. The project consists of creating an artificial satellite that works as a radio repeater.

Taranto, Italy - May 2016 - From 30 April to 1 May, about four hundred young people from the Salesian Youth Movement of South Italy attended the Youth Festival on the theme "Less is more", inspired by the Encyclical “Laudato sì” of Pope Francis on the safe-guarding of Creation.