(ANS - Kafroun) – We would like to share a summary of the testimony of Mariangela Branca, 23, of Rome, who in collaboration with the missionary office of the Salesian Circumscription of Central Italy (ICC), has volunteered at the Salesian Oratory of Kafroun, Syria.

(ANS - San Salvario) - What does Don Bosco mean in San Salvario? Here is the testimony of Antonia, a mother of three children and a housewife from Turin, who since September acts as a foster parent, "a lite-version", of Ahmed, a 17-year old Senegalese, a foreign minor residing in the Community of  Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (MSNA) of the San Luigi Oratory of Turin.

(ANS - Lyon) - When the educators came to Don Bosco to complain that they were not listened to by the young and did not know how to deal with them, Don Bosco used to say: "Go to the pump!" There was a fountain in the courtyard of the Valdocco, around which the young men jostled each other to drink or soften the hard breakfast bread. There, the educator, mingling in a queue, could listen to their conversations, learn their interests. Don Bosco also suggested that the educator be less hard, to "sweeten" his daily life.