For years, every Sunday and on midweek feast days, the Salesians have distributed meals and dedicated themselves to animation in prison through musical, theatrical and sporting activities as well as spiritual formation with the celebration of Mass and the sacraments, catechism and projects of a religious and educational nature, carrying on the legacy of Don Bosco who did the same thing in Turin.
With their presence, the missionaries make these young people feel much loved and important to someone, not a burden to be cast aside.
Their ministry is more necessary than ever in a country that, due to the socio-political and economic crisis which has been dragging on for years, sees many children and young people survive the day without a solid family network, kids who remain on the margins of society and feed themselves however they can. Unemployment and economic precariousness in fact force many parents to consider the education of their children as an accessory issue with respect to the need to obtain food and meet daily needs: for this reason, child labor is an increasingly widespread scourge and the phenomenon of street children is constantly increasing. Moreover, the percentage of the population living below the poverty line has exploded to 92%.
The Salesian Mission Office of Turin, "Missioni Don Bosco", has already committed itself twice in the past to support Salesian activities in Anjanamasina, guaranteeing Sunday lunch and recreational and sports activities for these minors who have no one else to take care of. of them.
Meanwhile, the needs and demands of children are still the same, but unfortunately the number of children in need has grown.
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