Genoa, Italy - November 2023 - On 10th and 11th November, the National Team of Missionary Animation met at the Salesian work in Sampierdarena, Genoa. It involved a group of Salesians, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and young people belonging to the various Missionary Animation groups in Italy. They are committed to continuing the community reflection started last year in Valdocco in view of the 150th anniversary since the first expeditions. During the first day, the group visited the premises of the future Museum of Salesian Missionary Expeditions, which will be built inside the Sampierdarena facility, and the Museum of Emigrations: a true experience of so many stories of men and women who found themselves, for various reasons, leaving their homes. It was nice to also find among them some figures from the Salesian Family: Artemides Zatti (SDB), Fr Raffaele Piperni (SDB) and Sister Maddalena Inzaghi (FMA). Then the team members visited the Church of San Sisto, where Don Bosco celebrated his first Mass in Genoa in 1857, for a moment of reflection and prayer. After a visit to the ancient port, from where the first missionaries set sail, in the evening they attended a goodnight by Fr Stefano Aspettati, Superior of the Salesian Circumscription of Central Italy (ICC) and Sister Elide Degiovanni, FMA, ILS Provincial.