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Don Bosco Day Around The World With BOVA

Anna and Claire in Zambia At the City of Hope in Lusaka, Zambia we celebrated the Don Bosco feast in a number of ways. At the Open Community School we had a whole school mass on the Friday, followed by an afternoon of singing, dancing and games (including a quiz about Don Bosco) with the [...]

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Phoenix Days Holidays

I was keen to get involved with the Phoenix Days holidays as they aim to offer young people from ‘poor’ home and family backgrounds the chance of a week’s holiday which they might not otherwise get. And I know what poor means…it means having no money, being skint, borassic…and so such an activity through a [...]

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Manchester Don Bosco Day Celebrations!

We now know the drill; it’s the end of January, it’s still colder than down South and there’s a strange sense of ‘I’m sure there’s something that should be happening around about now’ …YES! It’s the annual Network-North Don Bosco Day Celebration! For a few years now, the Salesians of the North have been emerging [...]

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BOVA Return Volunteer Helps Out at VIDES Summer Camp

This July, I agreed to get involved with a VIDES UK Formation camp in Bootle, Liverpool. It was the third year that VIDES had been in Bootle, so people mostly knew what to expect – but having never done a VIDES camp before, I didn’t know what to expect but I was very excited! I [...]

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