At first glance, it might seem like a normal Salesian youth camp, one of the many organized by Salesian youth centers and oratories throughout Europe; but just pay a little attention and you realize that all the posters are in Arabic! The reason is very simple: it is the first camp for young people of (more…)

Cuiabá, Brazil – June 2019 – More than 130 Past Pupils of the São Gonçalo Salesian Institute launched a blood donation campaign in Cuiabá on June 17th, which will end on August 30th. The objective is to obtain 1,125 donations, to increase the blood supply of the city collection center and to increase the number (more…)

EXTENSION OF OMAEC TO LASALLIAN VOLUNTEERS IN CAMEROON In May 12, 2019, during the Ordinary General Assembly of the Association of Lasallian Volunteers of Cameroon, OMAEC Cameroon Correspondent presents to all attendance the OMAEC and its aims. Within the meeting, Mr. Davy Tenefogne took the opportunity to suggest that in the next years, they can (more…)

The UNAEC Europe supports the project  mentioned during the General Assembly  of the CEEC (European Committee for Catholic Education), of which it UNAEC is a member. “Convoy 77” is an association created to propose “an educational and memorial project around the last large convoy of deportees from Drancy“. Convoy 77 is the last large convoy that left Drancy on July (more…)

We are glad that the former students are involved in the different fields of action of the Church…defense of Life, Caritas and all kinds of social and humanitarian actions; this is the real strength of the OMAEC. PAOLA MANCINI TESTIMONY I have been working for the Movement for Life in Italy since 1985, when I (more…)

Malta – November 2018 – The National Federation of Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco of Malta held their first international meeting of the “Mentorpower Project” supported by the Erasmus+ program financed by the European Union. This project aims to develop a handbook on how Past Pupils and members of the Salesian Family can (more…)

Brother Juan Antonio Ojeda, responsible for Educational Projects of the OIEC, was present at the Audience of the Pope and Synods, which on the occasion of the Youth Synod was held in Rome on Saturday, October 6, 2018. During this event students presented two projects of the “I can” project which operates worldwide, in which (more…)

The Pedro Arrupe World Association was created in 1986 at the World Congress of Jesuit Alumni in Versailles, in response to a specific appeal of Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, then Superior General of the Society of Jesus, who wished that the Alumni formed for themselves the instruments that will enable them to act for refugees. The Association is (more…)

Presentation of the Nonviolence Generation the context in which it was born The Jubilee Year 2000 and the war situation in Casamance, Senegal. the vision The Nonviolent Generation is a movement that aspires to a world or society without violence. Indeed, if conflict is a fact intrinsically linked to our human and social condition, its (more…)

Last year, the company BT Spain made a donation to the OMAEC of computers and mobile phones for social purposes; for these issue we have the collaboration from the NGO PROYDE.   Donated equipment have been allocated In the last months as follows:   COSTA RICA, through our correspondent Daniel Langlois. PANAMA, through our correspondent, (more…)