Even as India is in its Day 29 of the nationwide lockdown, further extended till 03 May, the Don Bosco Development Society [DBDS] Mumbai which also functions as the MumbaiSalesians' Province Planning and Development Office [PDO], continues its relentless COVID-19 outreach in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, which rank as the 1st and 2nd most affected of the Indian states. DBDS Mumbai has been coordinating a sustained Relief Outreach, ever since the imposition of the lockdown, till date, reaching out to 40, 000 deprived individuals in Maharashtra and Gujarat,thanks to substantial financial aid from its funding partners. . Read More »

DBDS [Don Bosco Development Society], the Mumbai Salesians' PDO [Province Planning and Development Office] had initiated COVID-19 relief outreach, thanks to its funding partners, facilitating provision of essential food, hygiene and toiletries to 10,000 individuals from impoverished underprivileged backgrounds in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai assisted by the Mahanagar Gas Ltd. In the cities of Vadodara and Pune too, relief outreach is underway, thanks to financial aid from Mix-for-Kids Germany and Manos Unidas Spain.. Read More »

The Salesian Province of Bombay [INB] mourns the loss of Coadjutor Salesian Br. Michael Condillac who passed away at 1500 hrs on 12 April 2020, at Karuna Hospital, Borivali-Mumbai. Br. Condillac was 78 years old and a Salesian for 38 years.. Read More »

The Social Service wing of the Don Bosco Society, Guwahati Province, known as 'Bosco Reach Out' headquartered at Ulubari, Guwahati has been providing food and relief materials to 3500 poor daily wagers and migrant families who are suffering due to the 21-day lockdown after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Currently Bosco Reach Out is distributing essentials kit which consists of Rice, Dal, Oil, Soya Nuggets, Soap, Hand Sanitizer and most important is Mask. We have planned to reach out 3500 families in Assam and Meghalaya. Till now we have provided immediate need of 263 families in urban slum of Guwahati city at Boothnath and Manipuri Basti. . Read More »

The Salesians of Don Bosco in Mumbai, have taken the Covid-19 challenge head-on, in compliance with the civic administration's directives, to bring relief aid to the most poor and abandoned within Mumbai City limits and in other parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In Mumbai City - Matunga, Wadala, Andheri and Nerul - MumbaiSalesians are ensuring that the necessary daily basic requirements of the most poor, especially of those residing in the slum pockets of Mumbai are being addressed, in their battle for survival against the Covid-19. . Read More »

The Salesians of Don Bosco of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Province Bangalore [INK] have started a production of masks initiative with the wives of fishermen from Kerala state, to aid health workers and railway staff, in the battle against Covid-19. . Read More »

The General Councilor for Formation of the Salesians of Don Bosco / Society of St. Francis deSales, Father Ivo Coelho has addressed a letter with several recommendations inviting all the pre-novices, novices and Salesians in the formation communities, especially in Italy, to cultivate communion in the spirit ''with all the more intensity in this time'' of global emergency. This could well be applied in our specific context too, in the many formation communities across Don Bosco South Asia.. Read More »

The Economer General of the Salesians of Don Bosco / Society of St. Francis deSales, Brother Jean Paul Muller, has issued a timely circular with recommendations, suggestions and possible preventive measures to confront the Covid-19 pandemic across the Salesian Don Bosco institutions around the world. . Read More »

The General Chapter 28 of the Salesians of Don Bosco / Society of St. Francis deSales has elected the Regional Councillors. . Read More »

The General Chapter 28 of the Society of St. Francis deSales / Salesians of Don Bosco has elected Father Biju Michael Pulianmackal of the Salesian Province of Guwahati [ING], as the Don Bosco South Asia Regional Councillor for 2020-2026. . Read More »