Bienvenu Shelter

10/14/2026

10/13/2026

📣 On the occasion of the Study Day scheduled for tomorrow, 13 October, the document “Mental Health and Pastoral Accompaniment in Humanitarian Contexts” will be presented!❤
It was prepared by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and the Scalabrini International Migration Institute - SIMI in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.🤝

📌 For more information and the link to join: https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2026/mental-health-pastoral-accompaniment-humanitarian-crises.html

08/25/2026

𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐠𝐥𝐢 𝐥𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚!

Con il tuo 5xmille alla Fondazione Scalabriniana offri accoglienza, protezione, educazione e nuove opportunità a migranti e rifugiati.

👉 Indica il CF 96517500581 nella dichiarazione dei redditi e firma a favore di Fondazione Scalabriniana ETS.

❤️ Un piccolo gesto, un grande aiuto!

📲 Scansiona il QR code o visita:

www.scalabrinianfoundation.org/sostieni-anche-tu/

07/15/2026

✨ "Fragments of (South) Africa" è su Vatican News! ✨

La testata ha dedicato un bellissimo approfondimento al libro fotografico di Chiara Granata e Federico Parolo, nato durante il loro volontariato con nella Missione Scalabriniana di Johannesburg.

Il servizio racconta l'anima profonda di questo progetto: dalle storie di riscatto delle donne rifugiate del "Bienvenu Shelter Baking", fino alle "feroci contraddizioni" di un Paese sospeso tra la bellezza della sua gente e le attuali tensioni sociali analizzate da padre Filippo Ferraro. Un mosaico di sguardi che trasforma la cronaca in umanità pura.

🔗 Leggi l'articolo completo qui:
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo/news/2026-07/sudafrica-migranti-rifugiati-diritti-democrazia-accoglienza.html

Il volume fotografico è disponibile presso le sedi ASCS di Milano, Roma e Chieri.

06/19/2026

Today, as we look forward to World Refugee Day on the 20th of June 2026, Scalabrini pauses to recognise the strength, courage and resilience of refugees, asylum seekers and all people on the move.

Around the world, millions of people have been forced to leave their homes because of conflict, persecution, violence, economic hardship and other circumstances beyond their control. Behind every statistic is a human story, a parent seeking safety for their child, a young person searching for opportunity, a family hoping to rebuild their lives with dignity.

At a time when migration is the subject of intense public debate in South Africa and across the world, we look at World Refugee Day as a reminder of our shared humanity. While communities face real social and economic challenges, we believe that lasting solutions are built through dialogue, understanding and respect for the dignity of every person.

Refugees and migrants are more than labels, statistics and numbers. They are neighbours, colleagues, entrepreneurs, students, friends and community members who contribute to the social, cultural and economic life of our country every day.

This World Refugee Day, we invite everyone to choose compassion over fear, understanding over division, and solidarity over exclusion.

Together, with strength and courage, we build communities where every person can belong.

06/13/2026

04/23/2026

Thank you Fr Jean-Marie!

04/22/2026

Over the past 25 years, the Bienvenu Shelter has woven a network of connections and solidarity. Beyond walls and borders, it has become a place and a path of stories, where each of them speaks of a life welcomed and a dream nurtured.
In 2018, CSEM, in partnership with Bienvenu Shelter, the Sisters’ community and other institutions, co-organised CSEM´s 1st International Conference in Johannesburg/South Africa, under the theme and title “Rebuilding Life at the Borders”, thereby creating the first space for dialogue between academics, civil society representatives and migrants from various countries and continents. This marked the beginning of what would become ICoMiR, now in its 4th edition.
Celebrating these 25 years alongside the Bienvenu Shelter team is also a celebration of the charism that guides the institution and to value the partnership that has been built and strengthened to promote the agency of migrants and refugees. Welcoming, protecting, promoting migrants and refugees, especially women and children is a movement of mutual transformation in the lives of those who are welcomed and in the lives of those who care for and welcome them.
We hope that the coming years will be filled with the same affection, creativity and hope for transforming the world. Long live the Bienvenu Shelter!

With fond regards,
The CSEM Team.

04/22/2026

Nesta quarta-feira, 22, a cidade de Johannesburg, África do Sul, viveu um momento histórico e profundamente emocionante com a celebração festiva dos 25 anos de missão do Bienvenu Shelter, obra das Scalabrinianas dedicada ao acolhimento de mulheres refugiadas, migrantes e crianças em situação...