Madrid, Spain - December 2024 - From 30 November to 1 December, the Salesian hostel in Mataelpino, Madrid, hosted the second meeting of the Salesian Missionary Volunteering course of Spain's Saint James the Greater Province (SSM)  in collaboration with Misiones Salesianas Mission Office and the Jóvenes y Desarollo NGO. This second meeting was aimed exclusively at volunteers who are preparing to leave in summer 2025 (VMS25). A total of 42 people participated in the formation event, mostly from the Salesian works in the SSM Province. The event took place in two different settings: on the one hand, on Saturday morning, at the Misiones Salesianas Museum, where Paloma Montero, head of the transformation area, together with her team, prepared a formation proposal based on the museum's exhibition, "Slave Children. The back door. ” José Alberto Medina, from the Misiones Salesianas transformation area, recounted his experience arriving in Spain and invited those present, such as Salesian Missionary Volunteers (SMVs), to "humbly put themselves in the shoes of others". In the second part of the morning, Thimbo Samb, a young Senegalese actor who arrived in Spain by boat a few years ago, staged his dramatic experience. On Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, in Mataelpino, the volunteer formation team developed the different formation modules planned for this first meeting: "The volunteer: anthropological and moral dimension", "The volunteer: vocation and mission" and "Field experience: towards transformative volunteering". Accompanying the process were 3 volunteers from the previous course who shared their experience in Nigeria and Venezuela.