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Past Pupils'
enterprise to be especially proud
of
SAN JOSE CITY (Phil): 23 September
2005 -- The sprawling metropolis known as Metro Manila contains some
17 cities, one of which is San Jose City. The Salesians have been there
since 1993, with a small community engaged in a training centre located in the
Nueva Ecija area. The centre is known, obviously enough, as the Don Bosco
Training Centre. Three past pupils (in the Philippines they are called
Bosconians) from the first and second batch from this training centre have now
set up an Enterprise Shelter Department. The Department has begun
operation this month.
The ESD is a joint SDB-Consuelo
Foundation project. The Consuelo Foundation is the work of a Filipina, a
financially well-endowed woman who inherited her fortune from her Ayala
connections - another well-known name in the Philippines - and who was inspired
by the words of St Teresa of the Child Jesus to make her love deeds, not just
words.
The aim of the new Enterprise Shelter Development
is to provide job or self-employment for skilled and experienced past pupils of
the Don Bosco Training Centre who have undergone further specialised training in
the Makati or Mandaluyong Training Centres, as well as having job experience
with Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi.
The Shelter provides
services in the following trades: automotive, refrigeration, air conditioning,
electrical, welding, carpentry. The old automotive workshop was adapted
for the purposes of the new Shelter. Further information can be sought
from juliusdbenterprise@yahoo.com
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