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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY: Salesian Missions highlights projects that address climate action in local communities - MissionNewswire
- Salesian Missions highlights World Environment Day with a focus on climate action projects across Guatemala, Peru, Uganda and Zambia.
- Guatemala: Talita Kumi students produce a new organic fertilizer via vermiculture using coffee pulp as a key input.
- Peru: Bosconia center in Piura improves learning environment with two added air conditioning units and pool shade.
- Uganda: Palabek Refugee Settlement gets a 60-panel solar power system to boost electricity for religious and community use.
- Zambia: Don Bosco Community in Mansa receives a solar power system to power the priest’s house and water pumps.
- Zambia’s project addresses a national energy crisis by providing a reliable, renewable energy source for essential services.
- Talita Kumi students’ vermiculture fertilizer project demonstrates waste-to-resource practices for rural and Indigenous communities.
- Salesian Missions links efforts to Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ (2020) on environmental education and youth leadership.
- Salesian Green Alliance integrates youth across Salesian institutions to advance climate action.
- Overall aim: empower youth, protect the environment, and improve community resilience through solar energy and sustainable farming.
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