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Don Bosco Bonn• Sträßchensweg 3 • 53113 Bonn / Germany • Tel.: +49 228 -

539 65-0

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Groundbreaking models of education for the poor

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Our Vision: Mission worldwide

Don Bosco Mission• Sträßchensweg 3 • 53113 Bonn / www.donboscomission.de • Tel.: +49 228 - 539 65-0

Education reduces poverty

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Some facts: Worldwide…

•100 Mio. children do not have access to education. The majority are girls.

•Normal class size in Mozambique: 74 pupils.

•Every forth child drops out from school.


Barriers to Education for All

1. Poverty2. School fees3. Low education nivel of Parents, especially

Mothers 4. City-Land differences5. Lack of funds6. Gender discrimination7. Lack of qualified teachers

Education – a challenge for the Salesians

Not just caring for the poor children in

the world, but also teaching them to care for

themselves.

5Don Bosco Mission• Sträßchensweg 3 • 53113 Bonn / www.donboscomission.de • Tel.: +49 228 - 539 65-0

Don Bosco Education Don Bosco Education

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• 288 centers of alphabetization 288 centers of alphabetization

• 955 primary schools 955 primary schools

• 636 secondary schools636 secondary schools

• 513 higher secondary 513 higher secondary schools schools

• 503 vocational schools 503 vocational schools


Don Bosco Education Don Bosco Education

• a system of education that develops the whole person - body, heart, mind and spirit.

• growth and freedom.• putting the child at the centre of the whole educational

enterprise. • Instead of punishment a congenial, friendly and holistic

approach to education. • a climate that ‘draws forth’ (educere) the best in the child,• encourages the child’s complete and fullest self-expression, • assists young people in acquiring habits that will lead them to

opt in favour of what is good, healthy, joyful and life-enhancing.

Education should form the citizen with faith


Education for the poor

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Access

Quality Market

Three key aspects


Create access to education

Where the state fails: Rebuilding of schools after the civil war in

Timor-Leste (15% of all the schools).



Where special groups are marginalized (tribals, girls, refugees…):

Cellar schools in Pakistan for afghani refugees children, especially girls.



• Where the existing schools are not sufficent

rural primary schools in

Ghana


Create Access Difficulties and chances

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Access

scholarships

parents language

boarding

geographic difficulties

transport

incentives (microcredits

lunch…)


Language

• Schools in local dialect and tribal language.

• Salesian grammar for Bororo Indians in Brasil, Campo Grande.

• Didactic material and complete edition of schoolbooks for tribals in Umswai India.


Geographic difficulties

• „treeschools“ in South Sudan for returning refugees.

• low threshold offer for the poor: Slumschools in Dimapur, India.


Parents

• Parents in Tuoba, Mali help with construction, reparation and administration .

• Free access to schools in Montesalvado, Peru while Parents work in the fields. Possibility to teach also the parents in health and alimentation .


Transport and boarding

• Schoolbus in Goa, India. Can be switched into a mobile classroom.

• Boarding schools in rural areas in Sunyani, Ghana.

• Boarding school for Indios in rural Ecuador.


Incentives

• Microccredits for parents in Angola.

• Lunch programmes in Haiti.


Scholarships and bridge-schools

• Bridgecourses for working children in Colombia.

• Special schools for drop outs and streetchildren, aids-orphans, etc. e.g. Manzini, Swasiland.


General: No schoolfees for children in need Special scholarships for streetchildren

Alternatives

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• Distance learning through Radio in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (75%Women, mostly mothers, 2400 primary pupils, 28.000 secundary school pupils).

• Radioschools also for Shuar-Indians in Ecuador.


How to enhance quality?

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Quality

E-Learing

skill enhancement for teachers

psychosocial care

education of values

early intervention

assignment of Substitute teachers


Mission Statement 2008

Let us educate with the heart of Don Bosco, for the

integrated development of the life of the young,

especially the poorest and most disadvantaged,

promoting their rights.


Skill enhancement for teachers

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Assignment of Substitute teachers

• Training of young volonteers from Rangon to support teachers in Wa-State, Burma.

• Network for all Don Bosco teachers in Bogota, Colombia.


psychosocial care and education of values

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• Operation „Second Chance“ in Manila, Filippines for delinquent youth – psychosocial programms for reintegration in life and school.

• Extra lessons for traumatised streetchildren in Tirana, Albania.

• Education in values in Capetown, South Africa .


Early Intervention

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• Preschools enable mothers to finish their proffessional training and promote the childlike development in Bogota, Columbia.

• Cooperation with sister congregations in this field – e.g. in Kenitra, Marokko.


E-Learning

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• Don BoscoTech in India – Network of all vocational training centers with special E-learning Models. Exchange of best practice examples.

• Online instruction courses in Manila and Cebu (Filippines) complement the technical curricula.


Formal education for employment- strategies

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Market

Demand-orientated

professional training

Alumni-Networking

Cooperation with companys

Income generating programms

Practical experiance

Monitoring


Practical experience

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• On the job training as main part of formal education.


• 5 month praxis, 10 month theory in Cebu, Filippines.

• Several practical experiences during the formal education in printing, Gatchina, Russia.

Cooperation with companys

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• Coop. with SUZUKI in Lahore, Pakistan – support for new machines, influence on curriculum.

• Formal training centers in business parks for win-win effects in Vietnam.


Income generating programms/ start up programmes


• Microcredits for refugee women in Goma, Congo.

• Toolbox as start-up kit in El Obeid, Sudan.

• Pupils can use the technical equipment for jobs in the afternoon in Mahajanga, Madagascar.

Alumni-Network

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• …in South-America: Alumni act as Mentors for youth at risk.

• Alumni finance aneducation center in Kinshasa, Congo.

• Alumni-network for practical experiences in Cebu, Filippines.


Monitoring

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• Jobplacement-programm in Bosco Boys Town Nairobi 2 years monitoring.

• Accompaniment of ex-Students over 2 years, where required , adaption of training programms and integration of new trainings.


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• Cooperation with the local hospital to produce prostheses in the mechanic education in Neuquen, Argentinia.

• Vocational training for the tourist sector (guest services) in Shihanoukville, Cambodia.

Demand-orientated professional training


Future challenges and prospects

• Apply and intensify Media services.

• Deal withe the impacts of globalization.

• Strenghten our profil and expertise.

• Formation of elites.

• New regional challenges.

We remain on the side of the needy youth and consider the requirements of the church (e.g. Eastern Europe, Mongolia,

Bangladesh) .


Thank You!


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