School and vocational training center Don Bosco

Project location: Calí

Number of supported children: 500

Type of support: Material and Teacher for Dual Education

Period of support: Since 2015

The Don Bosco Training Centre, located in Cali Colombia, is a non-profit educational and social institution run by the Salesian Community. Since 1992, a team of priests, religious and lay people have worked together to re-establish the rights of children, adolescents and young people at high social and economic risk in the District of Aguablanca. In addition they promote their physical, psychosocial, intellectual and spiritual development, through an appropriate educational environment, with family and community participation.

Through technical training in 13 technical areas, children, adolescents and young people who are cali residents and have experimented different ways of poverty, armed conflict displacement, physical and work abuse, finally find a safe place where they can improve their living conditions in order to re-establish their rights and have a decent life away from crime and drugs.

Our project supports 500 children and young people for dual education in automotive and HC installation. Our work reaches children and young people through training programs for work and human development, where comprehensive and interdisciplinary basic care is provided: medicine, dentistry, psychology, social work, nutrition, pedagogy, schooling, recreation, sport, training for work and continuous support through the Don Bosco Preventive System. (Pedagogy of Love).

Primavera has supported teachers learning programm so that the poorest children have an opportunity to get a profession to build decent life projects for themselves and their families.