austraLasia
#1581
A big problem -
may it never be solved!
LAHORE: 12th June
2006 -- Fr Miguel writes: "Finally, after much work and overcoming
obstacles, the first group of 47 students of Don Bosco Technical and Youth
Centre were able to sit for their Public Examinations to have their Certificates
recognized by the Government. Examinations lasted four days and different
examiners were sent to our Centre to test the boys. Yesterday one of them
approached me, and showing me the Result Sheet told me: 'your boys are all over
250 marks, out of a total of 300. I have never seen anything like this'.
"Now think of this fact: in a country like Pakistan, with all the implications:
a group of Christian boys (95% of those who took the exams) is greeted and
admired by Muslim examiners… These have been days to remember somebody who
remains deep in our hearts: Fr. Hans Dopheide who pioneered our presence in
Lahore and
worked hard to see the boys joining these exams. It all means that our presence
in the country is starting to bear fruits.
"What is not
so easy for people to understand is how we motivate the boys to study and be
trained so well, that is, how we manage to succeed where the other schools
failed with them (almost none of them had completed Basic Education). I just
give away more and more copies of the Preventive System… And in the meantime,
thanks be to God, we face a serious problem: every time we think of a best
trainee to be prepared as instructor he ends up applying to join us as a
Salesian. The last example is a Welding Technician, who is about to complete his
18 months Welding Course after graduating with honors here and when he is about
to start earning money he says he has decided to be a Salesian. And so even if
we have already sent 4 postulants to the Philippines this year we find now 6
candidates among us… A big problem - may it never be solved!
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