Genoa, Italy - March 2022 - The Don Bosco Institute of Genoa, in collaboration with the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Municipality, has recently welcomed 15 sick Ukrainians. Great is the affection and closeness shown by the volunteers and young people of the Salesian house, who listened attentively to the testimonies of the refugees and gave them some food and provisions from personal donations.

Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy - March 2022 - "Give me something to drink": these are the Words of God that Fr Roberto Dal Molin, President of the National Center for Salesian Works (CNOS), put at the center of three texts from the Gospel of John, to make the university students and young workers reflect, this when they met on March 11-13 at Colle Don Bosco to live the experience of the spiritual exercises. Through silence, sharing, games, and shared prayer, the young people experienced feeling part of a community that is the Church, in which Jesus is present.

(ANS - Turin) - The Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA), the fourth group of the Salesian Family, founded by Don Bosco himself, is distinguished by its Marian devotion, inherited from its founder, and also by its special focus on families. Both of these aspects are clearly visible in the recent initiatives undertaken by the association.

(ANS - Rome) - The Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) has launched an energy efficiency project to reduce energy consumption and make the most of renewable sources throughout the campus. The initiative, as the Rector of UPS, Fr Andrea Bozzolo, explains today, acts on several levels, because it not only contemplates more ecological infrastructures and equipment, but also a new way of looking at Creation and education to have more responsible daily attitudes towards our Common Home.

Rome – March 2022 - The meeting of ‘ALL DB TECHS’ was held on 12th March 2022 on ZOOM platform. The aim of the meeting was to share the contextualized charismatic reflections on the theme ‘WORK SPIRITUALITY AND WORK ETHIC’. The directors of various DB Techs, Fr George Mathew – DB Tech India; Fr T.J.George – DB Tech Africa; Fr Dindo Vitug– DB Tech ASEAN; Fr Claudio Cartes – DB Tech America, Mr Miguel Esquíroz Noble - Tech Don Bosco, Spain were present for the meeting. It was coordinated by Fr Patrick Anthonyraj of the Youth Ministry Department. Pablo Osorio helped in the simultaneous translation.

Borgomanero, Italy - March 9, 2022 - The close relationship between the Don Bosco Boarding School and the "Mamre" Association of Borgomanero has become concrete as they have begun to provide formidable help to Ukraine. As events unfolded, the Rector of the Institute, Fr Giuliano Palizzi, SDB, after consulting Mario Metti, head of the Association, involved students, parents, and faculty in collecting basic necessities for the displaced persons. In a commendable show of solidarity, within a couple of days, the School's theater was filled with clothing, sleeping bags, and medicines, with the teachers coordinating the Don Bosco students in sorting the huge amount of material and loading the vans. Last Friday, five vans left Borgomanero for Jarosłav, in Poland, where the material was transferred onto a truck for Lviv. In addition to people in charge of Mamre, the Association "Compagni di Volo" and those in charge of the Ukrainian Community of Borgomanero, some teachers from the "Don Bosco" Economic and Social secondary school also participated in the trip. Part of the collection will benefit some orphanages thanks to the connection with the Salesians of Ukraine and Poland.

Source: donboscoborgo.it