Emergency

Since 2013, Don Bosco Network’s role is to ensure coordination in the joint efforts of many Salesian NGOs, Mission Offices and other partners, to provide fast and accurate help in case of emergency.

Everyday somewhere in the world the earth is shaking, heavy rains cause the rivers flood the fields and villages, typhoons and hurricanes devastate the land, draughts destroy the crops depriving people of their basic needs. Only some of these breaks into global news because of their extend range and severe impact on the great number of people’s lives.

Salesian communities present in more than 130 countries in the world deal with these calamities and their effects on a regular basis. Most of the times, when the disaster affects limited area, communities and provinces respond locally. But in some cases, there is a need for joint international response and solidarity involving other Salesian provinces, Salesian organizations, institutions as well as private and public donors supporting the affected population in all phases of emergency relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation.