Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia - November 2023 - On 2 November, the first edition of the International Salesian Games of Integration was held at the Don Bosco College in Santa Cruz de La Sierra. The event involved 250 athletes from the Salesian Santa Teresa College in Corumbá, Brazil, and three other Salesian schools, who competed in basketball, volleyball and futsal games. The Brazilian student athletes travelled some 660 km by bus, from Corumbá to Santa Cruz de La Sierra, to take part in the tournament and also visited the Mary Help of Christians parish and Salesian works in the Bolivian city. Fr Ivan G. Mamani, Rector of the Don Bosco College in Santa Cruz, and Fr João dos Santos Neto, Pastoral Coordinator of the Santa Teresa College  conceived and organised the tournament. The latter declared that “This tournament was the seed of something very beautiful that is being born on our continent and that will flourish in Salesian youthful joy.”