Rome, Italy – February 2024 - Don Bosco's childhood, his arrival in Turin, the historical context of Risorgimento Italy, the origin of the first oratories in the 1840s, his ability to listen, to look around to respond to people's real needs; but above all his intuition of being a father for young orphans - as he had been - and that the oratory was a "home" for everyone. On the occasion of the feast of Don Bosco, all the staff of the  Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS) NGO at their Rome headquarters met, on Friday, 2 February, for a morning together with Fr Luca Barone from Salesian Headquarters and member of the Executive Committee of the VIS. Fr Barone led a reflection and a moment of discussion around the figure of the founder of the Salesians, re-reading his message to recognise him today as a guide for the values and work of the NGO, active in over 20 countries with international cooperation projects in close synergy with the Salesian Congregation. The morning ended with a Mass together in the Salesian community at San Callisto and lunch, in addition to the promise to make these moments increasingly an integral part of the life of the organisation in order to continue exploring together a message that after 200 years still has much to say, anywhere in the world.