Rome, Italy - April 2020 - From April 9, thanks to the collaboration of "Spazio Conad" and the generosity of customers, the Salesian "Borgo Ragazzi Don Bosco" center has started the collection of basic necessities with the “suspended” shopping system, that is where a customer pays for items that can be collected by someone in need. In this case, the supermarket's customers find at the exit trolleys where they can leave something they have purchased to support the families of poor children followed by the Borgo. Last week, thanks to the generosity of these people, more than 30 families severely challenged by the coronavirus crisis were thus helped.

(ANS - Rome) - "Salesians for Social APS" has reactivated 67 projects of the Universal Civil Service which had been suspended due to the COVID-19 health crisis; thus, about 80% of the total activities have resumed; 753 voluntary operators (78% of the total) have re-started their activities in 198 project locations (62% of the total).

Catania, Italy - April 2020 - At the end of the Easter holidays, the Salesian Institute "San Francesco di Sales" was ready to welcome its pupils back online not only at school, but within a #comunitàeducante that also concerns itself with their mental and physical well-being and their families. Alongside the consolidated distance teaching tools, the Salesians have created opportunities for meeting and fostering relationships. From Sunday Mass to live Spiritual Exercises on Facebook, from snacks and online games shared with children and teenagers of all ages, from virtual walls created with #Padlet to expressing their emotions with messages and drawings to the creation of a #webradio to face together this difficult moment without giving up, but keeping our gaze firmly on a new future.

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(ANS - Rome) - The Covid-19 pandemic has required the school world to find new resources and new languages ​​to normalize what is an extraordinary situation. What seemed like an emergency situation has, instead, become a daily circumstance that has already lasted six weeks. This is how two excellent Salesian institutes - the "Sant’Ambrogio" in Milan and the "Villa Sora" in Frascati – have reacted to the situation.

(ANS - Rome) - I'm connected, therefore I exist: this could summarize the phenomenon that sees the youth world increasingly immersed in the virtual network. Real life tends to coincide with uninterrupted interaction with the network. In this new world, what is radically lacking, from an educational point of view, is the possibility of assistance in the classical sense of the term: personal media are individual and provide for unsocial and unaccompanied use. It is the young person who decides with whom to be connected and with whom to relate.

(ANS - Rome) - To cope with the psychological impacts that could result from the long isolation caused by the health emergency, the Higher School of Specialization in Clinical Psychology of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) in Rome has decided to activate the project "You stay home ... I'm with you." It is a free online digital psychological counseling platform to guarantee the promotion of a culture based on social solidarity and at the same time continue the formation of specializing psychologists and psychotherapists.