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DEAR FRIENDS OF THE WORLDDear Internet friends, ladies and children in difficult circumstances.
We are the children of "DON BOSCO VILLAGE" We stay at "home MAGONE.
We've created this site with the help of our educators to be in contact with the world.
This site will enable us to exchange ideas with children who are under the same conditions as us.
We want our voice to be heard in the world.
To those who can read through this channel, we want your presence, your support in helping us to become honest citizens and good Christians.
By creating this site, we thank the Salesians of Don Bosco are with us and help us grow in faith and charity.
May God protect them in their task by following the footsteps of Don Bosco.
Dear friends, we are happy to read!
Your advice, your encouragement we fortify.
Your friends' home MAGONE "
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The Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco) is a religious congregation recognized worldwide for its role of promoting young people especially in the most disadvantaged.
Fort this and answering the call of the Rector Major, the Salesians are investing in Africa and especially West Africa.
Following the crisis that Côte d'Ivoire has experienced since 2002, the city of Abidjan had received the surplus populations fleeing the conflict areas were heated.
Given this situation, the difficulties will only grow in families.
The first victims are the children who are left to themselves. They will therefore, in order to survive, engaging in any act. These actions will lead them in the street.
It is well known that the phenomenon of street children there years before the crisis, but the number of children in the streets has increased due to this fact.
Faced with this situation which has dangerous repercussions on society, the Community has decided to develop its actions it has taken years before the crisis in favor of street children.
The Salesians perceive their presence in Kumasi as the answer to the call for disadvantaged youth and practically left to itself and questions facing the precariousness of its existence, the situation of children and young school leavers, apprentices suffering from abuse of all sorts and conditions of student life and study particularly difficult calls for reflection and commitment.
The Salesian Congregation strong experience of its management of human and spiritual youth saw therefore, given the precarious conditions of life for the people of Kumasi, to put through measures to improve the living conditions of populations. Among which the "VILLAGE DON BOSCO" which the "home MAGONE", to accommodate the children in difficult circumstances.
Where is the Don Bosco Village?
The DON BOSCO VILLAGE is located in the extreme northwest of the town of Kumasi, a suburb of Abidjan.
It includes land that is used to host a large number of children and youth of the neighborhood and surrounding areas.
In this field, the Salesians have built a building consists of one large room "versatile" without walls and podium buildings and changing rooms which will serve to finish in dormitories at the request of street children who come to recreate in "DON BOSCO VILLAGE.
Faced with the harsh realities of the town of Kumasi with particular neighborhoods close to the Salesian Salesian Community will develop a series of actions in response to the call of youth and education.
This is called the educational project of the "VILLAGE DON BOSCO" whose main points are:
- Dispensary
- The Youth Center
- The literacy program
- The home of street children
