(ANS - Piura) - "I have often asked myself: what does it mean to love?" says Sylwia Grzęda, a Polish volunteer, who worked for a year in Piura, Peru. "The world is abusing the word love, without thinking. When I went to Piura, someone gave me a card with a sentence from the book of Hosea: 'I will take you into the desert and speak to your heart'. In fact I went then into the desert of Piura, where the Salesians have built a great work for the poor. It is here that I learned the meaning of the word love."

(ANS - Rome) – Each year, as an aid for Salesian Mission Day, the Mission Sector, in collaboration with Missioni Don Bosco in Turin, prepares a video on the specific theme of Salesian Mission Day. This year this video presents the Salesians in Oceania.

(ANS - Buenos Aires) - Argentina is one of the most developed countries of Latin America, but education, as in all countries of that region, is a problem because "there is still need to improve the quality" according to the Salesians there. They want to promote the right to learn of all children, thus contributing to building a country where everyone can live well. For this they have launched the project "For children to study better."

(ANS – Cebu City) – On 9 March 2016, during his maiden visit to the Southern Province of the Philippines Province (FIS), the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB first set foot in the island of Negros to visit the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Victorias. This was the first Salesian educational institution founded in 1951. His secretary, Fr Horacio López and Fr Godofredo Atienza, FIS Provincial, accompanied him as the Salesians, their Lay Mission Partners and young people welcomed him with great joy.

(ANS - Lyon) - A Provincial Chapter is a fixed event that is repeated every three years; but this year’s Chapter of the Province of France and Southern Belgium, produced not only an exciting presentation of the work of the coming years, but also and especially a programme of  commitment for young people. During the Provincial Chapter 40 guidelines were approved that will direct the pastoral work of the Salesians for the coming years.