(ANS – Vienna) - Sunday 27th April 2016 brought 22 participants from 9 different countries to Vienna for the 6-day European training course ‘Speak Up!’ - an intensive course on youth advocacy and refugees run by Don Bosco Youth-Net. The training course aimed to develop the competence of the participants in developing and implementing advocacy actions while focussing on the impact on local, regional, national and European level, in particular policies affecting young refugees.  

Abidjan, Ivory Coast - April 2016 - Ceremony of awarding of diplomas and school certificates in the St Mary Mazzarello Professional Training Centre of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Abidjan.

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - April 2016 - After visiting the two Salesian communities in the Solomon Islands, on April 25 Fr Maria Arokiam Kanaga, Councillor for the South Asia Region, travelled on 25 April to Papua New Guinea to visit the Don Bosco Technical School at Gabutu.