Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw (DBYN) is an international network of Salesian youth work offices and youth organisations which work in the style of Don Bosco. The network brings together 13 member organisations from 13 EU member states. Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw organises activities such including:
- Youth exchanges: groups of young people from different countries come together to live, play, learn and reflect together.
- Life learning trips: a guided group of young people on a trip to experience and learn from the life of young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Voluntary service: a young person spends up to one year in another country to do youth work on a voluntary basis. This category also includes voluntary service in group, but groups mostly spend a maximum of 6 weeks abroad.
- Training courses: youth worker and volunteers from different countries take part in a training programme focused on a subject connected to youth work.
- Study visits: youth workers and volunteers from different countries visit youth projects in another country to learn from the projects visited and to exchange information.
- Seminars: youth workers and volunteers from different countries come together for workshops, lectures, … on a subject connected to youth work.
- Publications: our publications aim to inform members and volunteers, to promote the network and to support youth work practice in general.
Most Recent DBYN Stories
Leave Now!
The title may suggest that we arrived at this DBYN seminar in Vienna just to be told to leave, but thankfully not! After 14 or so hours of travelling, I arrived to the Studentenheim Don Bosco to a warm welcome from the Salesian community and the volunteers who had already arrived. The volunteers were getting to know each other with various games involving standing on chairs….it could only be a DBYN seminar!
LEAVE actually stands for ‘lifelong engagement after volunteer experience’. An amazing seminar aimed at young people who have done some voluntary service abroad for 3 months or more. (more…)
Meet ME in Malta
From the 8th – 16th August 2011 MEET ME gave young people from 8 different European countries a chance to exchange traditions and build friendships through various fun activities, all under the beautiful Maltese sun.
Looking back over the past week and trying to remember everything that was crammed in all I can think is ‘what a week’. We did so much and every moment was one to remember, all the activities were well planned and delivered so all that was left for us to do was get to know each other, and that we did, we have made many friendships that should last for years to come. Here are just some of the highlights of our week. (more…)
Three Islands Meeting
After the success of the 3-Islands meeting in Bollington last year, the Youth Ministry teams of the British, Irish and Maltese Provinces descended upon Maynooth for a weekend of sharing and learning.
The working motif for the weekend was ‘a journey to, in and from the desert’, as in the desert, our questions may not have answers, but it is a place where we can search and explore our questions. (more…)
DBYN Elects New President
After 3 years Fr Bob Gardner finished his time as DBYN president and on the 11th of March, the General Executive Body of DBYN elected Ms. Lieve Van Aerschot as the new president for DBYN. Lieve will be leading the network for the next 3 years. With this exciting new election the UK Salesian Youth Ministry Office was also elected to be on the board!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Fr Bob for all his hard work and to invite all young people to keep an eye on DBYN for future opportunities to get involved! (more…)
My World, One World – DBYN Youth Conference
Between 18 and 23 January about 30 young people from over 10 different countries were in Bonn, Germany, to take part in an International Youth Conference “My world-one world”.
The conference was the final event of a one year partnership of the Salesian NGO JUGEND DRITTE WELT and the city of Bonn. It was sponsored by the city and the “Foundation for International Dialogue of the Saving Bank in Bonn” and got support from Don Bosco Youth Net.
The young participants were all dedicated to different social activities mainly in Don Bosco projects all over the world. For one week they had a chance to get to know each other, to exchange ideas, get a better insight into different cultures and to broaden their own intercultural awareness. (more…)
