Paris, France - April 2023 - From April 22 to 26, 8 German and 6 French teenagers, aged between 13 and 17, shared a stay at the "Don Bosco" School of Life in Trie Château. The German teens, accompanied by three educators, came from the "Jugendhilfezentrum Don Bosco" in Sannerz. The French children of various ethnic backgrounds, accompanied by two educators, come from the "Notre Dame de Montmélian" children's social welfare home in Eragny sur Oise on the outskirts of Paris. Fr. Christian Vahlhaus, Vicar of the Salesian Province of Germany (GER), and Fr. Jean-Marie Petitclerc, Vicar of the Salesian Province of France-Southern Belgium (FRB), participated in the supervision and animation of the stay. The program included group games, a day in Paris, as well as sports and water activities at the "Aquavexin" center, and the "Aventurland" park. The course meant that the young participants, from the first evening of presentation, held with much bashfulness, came to experience the last evening, with the presentation of their talents, dancing, and singing with enthusiasm on the stage of the theater of the reception center. Despite the language barrier, adroitly tackled by young people who used their smartphones for translations, genuine exchanges of fraternity and friendship took place in a Salesian atmosphere that marked their spirits. The event was organized by "Don Bosco Action Sociale" (DBAS), the federation of all social works, which, under the leadership of Fr. Petitclerc, coordinates a hundred or so services offered in France, Belgium, and Morocco: of prevention; social mediation; daycare in the internees, of children and adolescents entrusted to social services and by juvenile judges, or handicapped; and reception and accompaniment of young migrants.