Port-au-Prince, Haiti - April 2016 - The Chapter of the Salesian Vice-Province of Haiti (HAI) was held from 28 March to 2 April. 26 chapter members took part.

Cumbayá, Ecuador - April 2016 - The Chapter of the Salesian Province of Ecuador (ECU) is taking place from 12 to 15 April. The participants are 48 chapter members and 20 guests, including Salesians and lay people who work in the various centres.

Lyon, France - March 2016 - On 19 and 20 March representatives of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco in France gathered in Lyon to evaluate the progress made so far and to plan future initiatives, starting with Eurobosco, the European continental meeting to take place next year in France. Michal Hort, President of the World Confederation of Past Pupils, was present at the meeting. He presented the Strategic Plan for the next six years, and the project of the "Business Platform", a platform of entrepreneurs at the service of the Salesian Family. It started in Slovakia and has become a model also for other countries. Fr Daniel Federspiel, Provincial of France-South Belgium, took care of the spiritual moments.

Madrid, Spain - April 8, 2016 - The National Delegation for Social Communication met in Madrid on 8 April to coordinate the final details of the visit to Spain of Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, which will take place from 28 April to 13 May. The meeting was attended by Fr Javier Valiente and Fr Josep Lluís Burguera, Delegates for Communication, together with the technical teams of the provinces and with the assistance of Antonio Garrido, General Manager of Edebé and Enrique Pradas, Technical Director of Dosatic Comunicaciones. Among the issues discussed were the renewal of the portal donbosco.es, the reorganization of the Salesian Communication Agency in Spain and the management of the national profiles on social networks.

(ANS - New Delhi) - Two young people from "Shelter Don Bosco Boys", a centre for street children in Mumbai, accompanied by Akhil Abraham, SDB, took part in a consultation of children in South Asia organized by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. The consultation, which took place from 4 to 6 April in New Delhi, served to highlight the problems of street children.

Fusagasugá, Colombia - April 2016 - The Chapter of the Salesian Province of Saint Peter Claver in Bogotá took place from 29 March to 2 April with 33 chapter members and 5 guests.