Shaping The Future For At-Risk Youth
With the youth unemployment challenge facing South Africa, the Salesian Institute Youth Projects (SIYP) is establishing new innovative programmes to launch this year. The new programmes will...
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Appeal to Catholic Business Owners!
An educational project in Johannesburg is appealing to Catholic business owners to provide a temporary workplace for learners needing practical training as part of their programme. The...
Young Woman Welder is Moulding Next Generation
Innocentia Vilakazi, a facilitator at the Salesians’ Don Bosco Educational Projects (DBEP) in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, is among a small cohort of women welders in South Africa —...
Salesians Gather for 11th Provincial Chapter
Twenty members from the various Salesian communities in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Eswatini and Lesotho — which make up the AFM Salesian province — gathered at Bosco Youth...
Salesians Young Burns-Survivor Says No to Schoolyard Bullies
In June 2014, Salesian Life Choices launched the 30 Stories in 30 Days campaign to celebrate National Youth Month. The campaign shares one inspirational youth story a...
Salesians Honour 5 Board Stalwarts
Cape Town’s Salesian community honoured five long-serving board members with a prestigious medal from the order. Long-serving board members were awarded the Rector Major Medal in recognition of their services to the Salesians and their special ministry to needy youth.
Salesians Give Training and Hope to Jobless Youth
With an unemployment rate of over 50%, and 40% of adults in South Africa having no schooling or only primary schooling, the Salesian Institute Youth Projects (SIYP) work to create opportunities for youth at risk in Cape Toen
Gold Award for Salesian Youth Projects
A Catholic youth project has been honoured by the Western Cape government for its skills-development programme.
LoveMatters
Love Matters is an educational programme on sexuality developed by the Bosco Youth Centre in Randvaal, Gauteng that targets teenagers, and is the Salesian Fathers’ response to...
