(ANS - Melbourne) – This year 2016 promises to be a great year for the Cagliero Project, the missionary volunteer programme of the Salesians of Australia. In recent weeks, several young people and adults have begun to collaborate in the Salesian centres of the East Asia-Oceania region, and among them also, for the first time, an entire family.

(ANS - Rome) - The key issues addressed by the Rector Major in the most recent video of the series "Dear Confreres" are: first of all, Syria, with an appeal not to forget the reality of a people who are suffering and the determiation of the Salesians to bring joy among the ruins of war; then the importance of communicating the good and communicating it responsibly; and finally good wishes to ANS for its new site.

(ANS - Calama) - The International Labour Organization has said that the formation and development of human resources illustrates the core values ​​of a society: equality, justice, parity of treatment, non-discrimination, social responsibility and participation of all in the economic and social life. There is no doubt that Don Bosco shared this point of view when he started his work with young people. After more than a year of work, the Minister of Mining Activities, Aurora Williams, and the Provincial of the Salesians in Chile, Fr Alberto Lorenzelli, have officially inaugurated the Colegio Técnico Industrial of Calama.