(ANS – Freetown) – “Fambul”, which means “family” in the Sierra Leonean Creole language krio, is the name of the Salesian NGO that began working in Sierra Leone in 1998, at the end of the civil war, at the service of children recruited to fight. From that first program of assistance and family reintegration, many others were born, which in the last four years alone have helped almost 11,000 children and young people suffering from violations of their fundamental rights. Through education, Salesians and a large multidisciplinary team of social workers transform the lives of dozens of children, adolescents and young adults every day to allow them to take control of their own lives and be masters of their dreams for the future.

(ANS – Valparaíso) – The forest fires that have affected the municipalities of Viña del Mar, Limache, Quilpué and Villa Alemana, in Chile, have become the largest national tragedy in the last 14 years, with 123 dead, 372 missing and hundreds of houses and hectares of land damaged by the fire. The Salesian Family in the country cannot remain indifferent to this situation.

(ANS – Lubumbashi) – Saturday, 3 February 2024 marked a very significant moment for the St Dominic Savio Salesian community's House of Youth in Ruashi,  Lubumbashi, in the Province of Upper Katanga. On that day, in the presence of three benefactors from Italy, the exciting opening of the Gabriele Confortini Health Centre took place, promoted by the Afia Don Bosco polyclinic.

(ANS – Tijuana) – On 26 January 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Mexican Refugee Aid Commission (COMAR) and the Salesian Project Tijuana (PST) reaffirmed their commitment to continue working together on behalf of refugees and migrants in the city of Tijuana, on the border with the United States. Over the last three years, a center called the "Multiservice Center" has been created for refugees and migrants who continuously arrive in the city, and now it has been decided to expand its range of services.

(ANS – Pamplona) – As part of an Erasmus mobility programme, the students of graphic arts at the Salesian institute in Pamplona, Spain, and their counterparts at the Don Bosco centre in Marseilles, France, worked on a Service-Learning project with great social value. This program, called "Printing Smiles" and presented to the public on Friday 2 February 2024, provides for the creation and printing of games and recreational material for children at the paediatric oncology department of the Navarre Hospital Complex.