(ANS – Havana) – On 9 December in Havana there was a meeting for social communicators from the five Salesian works in the country: Santa Clara, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba and the two houses in the  capital, Compostela and Víbora. The meeting was led by Fr Bruno Roccaro and Fr Julio Fernández, responsible for social communications in the Cuban Provincial Delegation.

The main reason for the meeting was the setting up of a network of social communicators in the Cuban Provincial Delegation, composed of workers in audiovisuals, graphic designers, in the press   and Salesians.

During the meeting the decisions were taken to promote social communications. In January 2012 a Bulletin of the Salesian Family will start, and the site for ecclesiastical and Salesian information www.salesianosdecuba.org will be re-launched. These two initiatives will be coordinated by the “Padre José Vandor” Centre of Communication in Santa Clara.

As members involved in pastoral work in their respective parishes,  the communicators were invited to promote  the “Valdocco to Cuba” Project, a programme which the Salesians are running at present to renew and to improve Salesian action in Cuban society, especially among the young. This is  a project which responds precisely to the mission and the preferential option of the new Network, aimed at transmitting Gospel values through social communication, in continual dialogue with culture.

The Network aims to bring together those professionally engaged, lay people and Salesian, working in the field of Salesian communication, promoting shared initiatives in the areas of formation and evangelisation, ensuring that the message communicated through various media is united and effective, in making known all the initiatives undertaken by the Salesians in Cuba on behalf of the young.

Published 14/12/2011