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Salesian Missions (501(c)(3) non-profit organization) seeks to teach young people various trades that will help them find decent jobs and become self-sufficient, contributing members of society. The organisation collaborates with Salesian missionaries in over 130 countries throughout the world and helps provide for the material and spiritual needs of poor and abandoned individuals, especially the young.
It informs the public in the United States of the global work carried out by the missionaries and of the needs they encounter while serving the young and needy. Salesian Missions receives donations from private citizens, corporations, government agencies and foundations to support development projects which not only advance individuals, but also communities. It encourages and promotes a prayer apostolate for the needs of its donors, their families and those working in the educative pastoral works in the missions.
The organisation seeks not only to assist poor youth but to protect them and teach them how to help themselves through technical training and education. It seeks to form the whole person stressing the need for the integration of the physical, psychological, moral and spiritual dimensions of individuals.
allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.