Guayaquil, Ecuador – January 2017 – On January 14th and 15th, at the “Patio Mi Pana” there was the first Council of children and adolescents of 7 cities that form the “Ecuador Salesian Project”. Fr. Francisco Sánchez SDB, who is in charge of the Council, highlighted the significance of this first encounter of 2017 for the formation and strengthening of animators in their own centres and cities of origin, where, together with their educators, they have the task to animate their fellow-students to grow as Don Bosco wanted: as good Christians and honest citizens.