The Salesian Lay Missioner (SLM) program has over 25 years of experience in sending volunteers to some of the most remote areas of the world while working with some of the most forgotten of people.
Their mission: to serve the poor and abandoned.
Since 1981, when Frs. Dominic DeBlase and A. Joseph Louis conceived the idea of a volunteer program to train and send forth dedicated individuals overseas, the SLM program has sent over 350 volunteers and has served in over 20 countries. From health care workers to youth ministers, each SLM has put his/her mark on their community and each volunteer has been changed by their experience.
Each year the world undergoes sociological changes that programs and sites must adapt. However, in this adaptation process, one need is constant and that one need is the need to love and be a caring presence among the poor, forgotten, and abandoned. For the last two decades, the SLM program has been able to give people the opportunity to care for, work with, and be a loving presence among some of the most destitute and needy communities.
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Where has the past taken the SLM program?
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20 countries that SLMs have served since 1981.
10/23/2008 - SLM Launches New Program Video
An introduction to the international volunteer service program of the Salesians of Don Bosco, USA. Directed by Luke Wassermann. Music by Hans Parent. This short video features footage of our sites in Bolivia, India, and Sierra Leone, and interviews with former SLMs, site directors, and priests, brothers, and sisters in the Salesian family.
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