(ANS - Rome) - The Salesian Youth Movement in Europe has chosen its logo, but has not yet its own official anthem, that is, a song that can be sung and played at every official meeting of SYM Europe, but also in meetings of national and local groups. For this "Small Team SYM Europe", invites everyone to participate in a music contest for the official anthem of SYM Europe.

(ANS - Turin) - "I want to draw attention to the situation of underage migrants, especially those who are on their own, calling on all to take care of young people who are helpless three times over - because they are underage, because they are foreigners and because they are defenceless. For various reasons they are forced to live far from their homeland and separated from their family."  This is one of the central passages of the Message issued by the Pope for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2017. In full harmony with the words of the Pope, the Salesians in Turin have inaugurated a new community reception centre for unaccompanied foreign minors.

(ANS – Bangalore) – Bangalore Christian Community of Meghalaya (BCCM), an innovative Migrant Ministry in Bangalore, celebrated its tenth anniversary on 2 October 2016 at Don Bosco Skill Mission, Bangalore. About 230 young boys and girls from the state of Meghalaya, belonging mainly to the three tribes - Khasi, Jaintia and Garos - thronged the Salesian campus for the decennial celebration of the BCCM.

(ANS - Cuenca) - Amazonian geography was a challenge for Maffeo Panteghini, a young Italian Salesian missionary who arrived in Ecuador in 1968. He settled in the villages of Cuchanza, Canton Mendez and Morona Santiago, between the Shuar and Achuar communities and for nine years he taught them the art of carpentry. Their stories remain as part of a past that is still alive.

(ANS - Turin) - "If at the end of my life my hands are dirty and worn, it means that my life was worth living." These are the words used by some volunteers of the Oratory of St Aloysius in Turin, the second oratory founded by Don Bosco, to describe the activities that take place today in San Salvario.