The SALESIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT forms part of the vast Salesian movement whose main goal is to form young people into "good Christians and upright citizens".
DESCRIPTION
It is a movement of an educative character offered to all youngsters, to make them subjects and protagonists of their own human and Christian growth with a missionary slant, open also to non members, with the will to play an effective part in the local area and to be positively inserted into the local Church.
It is loosely coordinated around the Salesian Youth Movement Council (SYMC) made up of Salesian, lay and youth representatives from the different national groups, with the assistance of the SYM-Philippine Secretariat made up of full time, part time and volunteer workers under the guidance of the Youth Pastoral Delegate and the Youth Pastoral Team member in charge of the Area on Group Experience.
The movement is OF, FOR, BY and WITH the young.
VISION-MISSION OF SYM
VISION
We envision a dynamic Salesian Youth Movement, where the young, salesians and lay animators, journey together with mutual esteem and trust, and in attitude of constantly seeking the will of God, live their faith as servant leaders of the Church and society, with a preferential option for the poor.
MISSION
We commit ourselves to:
Live out creatively the Salesian Youth Spirituality.
Create an atmosphere of reciprocity and mutual learning.
Continuous and integrated formation.
Youth Action in the local Church and in the socio-political field.