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Slovakian families
to assist Solomon Island
students
BRATISLAVA: 25th January 2006
-- Slovakian volunteer, Ms Alena Takacova was originally a successful
software developer-engineer in Bratislava, working for Siemens. She has
put in two stints of volunteer service in the Solomon Islands, 5 months in 2003
and a further 7 months in 2005, working in Tetere parish at the rural training
centre there. She was invited at the time by a Slovakian Salesian
missionary working there, Fr Peter Kuchar, and slowly came to know Don Bosco,
his family and spirituality by living in the parish compound behind the local
Sisters' convent.
Ms Takacova is now preparing her third
period of service which she hopes to begin some time in February. In the
meantime, back in Slovakia, she has been able to set up a 'Distance adoption
scheme', for some 50 SI High School students to cover their school fees and give
them an opportunity to complete their education. The students come from
the Tetere Parish area, and the scheme is carried out through the intermediary
efforts of the SLK Provincial mission animation centre in
Bratislava-Mileticova. In this way she is trying to build bridges between
the two distant Salesian places, although Ms Takacova is not yet formally a
member of the Salesian Family. Ms Takacova is doing one other thing for
her adopted mission - she is setting up a website for the parish which will be
hosted in Slovakia and available in English and
Slovakian.
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