(ANS - San Benito Petén) – At the beginning of February a grandiose project was started in the Salesian mission of San Benito Petén. The plan is to build a parish hall, a space that will serve for catechism classes and to bring people together for various activities of the mission and to start a football club on the model of San Lorenzo in Argentina. "With football you can save many young people from the streets,” says Fr Giampiero De Nardi, a Salesian missionary in San Benito Petén.

(ANS - Rome) - In Italy there are over a million children living in absolute poverty and over three-and-a-half million are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, with no opportunity to build a happy future. The Salesians in Italy believe that education is the tool to illuminate the future of all these little ones and that it is the prerequisite to get out of situations of marginalization and poverty that can still be found in many cities.

(ANS - Bari) - The story of Ibrahim, a sixteen-year-old Egyptian, is the story of so many other young people like him: poverty at home, a lack of decent prospects, the sacrifices of a whole family, and then the journey of hope in a rubber dinghy across the Mediterranean that has claimed so many lives. Some do not make it, like his older brother who was lost at sea in April 2011. Others, like Ibrahim, receives a second chance in life. He was accepted in the "16 August" Salesian educational centre for young people in Bari and now he looks to the future.