Salesian missionaries have been providing education and social development programs for poor youth and their families in Zimbabwe since 1995. Salesian missionaries are working to grow their educational presence. During a recent trip to Hwange, Rector Major Ángel Fernández Artime blessed the foundation stone for
MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries have been providing education and social development programs for poor youth and their families in Zimbabwe since 1995. Salesians, part of the ZMB Salesian Vice Province, started in the capital city of Harare and then in 2001 in Hwange. Between the locations there are two growing Salesian church parishes, a youth center, a secondary school and a technical school.
Recently, Don Bosco Hwange welcomed its first 90 students for grade 8 at the newly opened Don Bosco Secondary School. Both boys and girls, mostly from poor mining families, are attending the school.
The Don Bosco Hwange community is located within a large 28-hectare compound. On the compound is the fast-growing multicultural parish of St. Theresa in Empumalanga. The parish community has grown from four families when it started to 316 families in 2021. In Harare, Salesians are also working to open a Salesian Youth Spirituality Animation Center within the complex of the main parish cent