(ANS – Cotonou) – The Social Communication Provincial Delegates for the Africa-Madagascar Region had just concluded its 5 day meeting and marked the start of renewed cycle of collaboration, connection, and sharing of  information. Encouragement from the ATE Provincial, Fr Miguel Angel Nguema, has been a great help for the majority of SC Delegates who have recently been appointed and were attrending this biennial meeting for the first time. 

(ANS – Port-au-Prince) – The story is almost the same with the poor. Haiti is the country that “cannot recover”: an assertion that sounds as a persecution for this country, the poorest of the continent. After the earthquake that struck the country six years ago, Haiti “remains stuck in conditions of poverty and has not managed to overcome its political instability, and even less the economic one”. Fr. Jean Paul Mesidor, Superior of the Salesians of Haiti, knows that the problem of poverty is not due to lack of material things, but rather to lack of formation, education and to lack of the prospect of a better future for the youth.

(ANS – Gisenyi) – Gisenyi is a city located in the eastern part of Rwanda, very close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, contiguous to the Congolese city of Goma, where there is a Salesian presence. Gisenyi is renowned as a tourist attraction and during the genocide in Rwanda it hosted for some time the provisional government of the country. It is from this city that we receive the testimony of Iwona Błędowska, a Polish Volunteer of VIS, the “Don Bosco International Volunteer Service” writes from this city. 

(ANS – Ulaanbaatar) – The day so longed-for by the Salesians and the Salesian Family in Mongolia has eventually come; the youth and staff of the Salesian presences in the country are eagerly waiting to welcome the Rector Major, tomorrow, October 22nd. His visit, the first of a Successor of Don Bosco to the country, has been arranged in every detail so as to allow Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime to get acquainted, during the two days of his stay, with Mongolian culture and customs.

(ANS - Rome) - This afternoon, 20 October, the Rector Major leaves for another of his visits to the confreres, this time in Asia. For the next few days, until Saturday 29 October, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime will spend time with the Salesians and Salesian Family in Mongolia and Myanmar, listening to them and encouraging them.