(ANS - Bahía Blanca) - It's been 15 years since the social and educational project "Pibes de Don Bosco" (Don Bosco Boys) finally took shape. Since then this work has grown and has also managed to attract many people. It was with the 2001 crisis and the proliferation of homeless people and "cartoneros" (people who collect newspapers and cardboard from the rubbish dump) that the idea came of ​​providing accommodation, support and food for people in need.

(ANS - Kaluli) - Andrés Randisi is a 74 year-old Salesian Brother who has lived for 29 years in Angola. He is originally from Parana in Argentina. As a young man he decided to become a Salesian missionary and devote his life to educating and providing the tools for a better future to thousands of young people, first in Argentina and then in Africa which was being ravaged by bloody wars and poverty. Now he's back in his beloved Parana to be close to his 95 year-old mother who recently suffered a fall.

(ANS - Bogotá) - "Groups are signs of vitality," says the Youth Ministry Handbook. This is an old truth. Don Bosco started groups where young people could share. He encouraged these young people to make the experience of the oratory an evangelizing, educational and vocational experience. Many Salesian vocations came from these groups. Faithful to Don Bosco, the Salesians in many parts of the world continue this important and necessary work. In August, in Colombia, there was a camp for the Salesian Altar Servers Movement.

(ANS - Santa Clara) - The requirements for the "glory of the altars" were presented by the reform of the Code of Canon Law introduced in 1983. Three stages must pass for a candidate to be proclaimed a saint: the confirmation of the "heroic virtues", then beatification and canonization. This complex process is necessary also for Fr José Vandor SDB. On 8 August his body was exhumed. According to a specialist: "As a preliminary to beatification, the candidate's body is exhumed to be identified by the local bishop. The examination is performed only for identification purposes."

(ANS - Lokhikul) - Bangladesh is a place full of contrasts and paradoxes. In summer the temperature can reach 45 ° C, in winter it drops to 5 ° C. It is a very poor country, but with stark contrasts in wealth. The rich enjoy their privileges, while the rest of the population live in houses made of mud, in villages without electricity. The Salesians have been present in the country for six years. They have two missionary works: at Utrail and at Lokhikul, and also a centre at Joypurhat. There are five missionaries in the two works, four from India and one from Poland.