Montevideo, Uruguay - September 2017 - Fourteen Provincial Delegates for Formation from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, plus a representative of the Salesian Coadjutors, meet 19 - 22 September for the Formation Commission's Annual Meeting for the America South Cone Region; with them, the Formation referent of the Conference of Brazilian Provinces, the Provincial of Belo Horizonte, Fr Orestes Fistarol. Headed by Fr Cleofás Murguía, of the Education Dicastery, the meeting addresses many issues: statistics regarding first formation in the region; formation at the Rector Major's meeting with Salesian Provincials, July 2017; provincial project to re-size formation starting from the Team Visit, Paraguay 2017, and the priorities and guidelines of the formation sector; Provincial Qualification Plan for Salesians; study of the text "Identity of the Salesian Religious" by Fr Andrea Bozzolo, in view of the region's 2018 teacher formation; reshaping the region's formation centers and the experiences of the Curatorium; Protocol (ACG 425) of the Congregation on the Protection of Children; various events promoted by the formation sector and in the Region.