Don Bosco Training Center

Brgy Malasin, San Jose City

3121 Nueva Ecija

Philippines

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PROJECT PROPOSAL:       Canteen Renovation

1.          What is Don Bosco Training Center?

Don Bosco Training Center is a Catholic institution dedicated to the upliftment of the lives of marginalized youth. The institution has been working with the young people of the Diocese of San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines for the past 14 years. It has established itself as a premier technical school offering various skills for poor and out of school youth.

2.          Where is Don Bosco Training Center?

Don Bosco Training Center is located in the City of San Jose, 5-hour drive in the northern part of the Province of Nueva Ecija in the Central Luzon Region of the Island of Luzon, Philippines.

The people of San Jose are mostly tenant farmers. Population is around 578,643. Agricultural in nature, the city’s major source of income come from producing rice, corn, sugar cane, coconut, mongo, onions, fruits and vegetables.

3.          The Training Center

At present we have a total of 96 students, mostly children of poor farmers. At DBTC, we offer 15-month courses, namely, Welding, Motorcycle and Small Farm Engine Technology and Automobile Mechanics which include entrepreneurship. Our training center has equipments donated from abroad and scholarship grants are from foundations and individual sponsors.

4.          Rationale of the Project

Don Bosco Training Center still in its development stage has a need of upgrading our basic facilities, one of which is our Canteen (a place where are students and instructors alike eat their meals). Building the canteen will give our students a decent place to eat their meal and interact with each other.

5.          Project Work Details

Completing the entire project goes through the process of enlarging and extending the already-built canteen, roofing and putting up trusses, cementing and putting on a layer of brick stones as flooring, putting a ceiling against the roof, painting the building, cabinet-making, fabricating tables and chairs, and finally constructing a washing area.

6.          Our Counterpart

From our end we would like to assure you of our own contributions to this project by providing you the following:

             1.          Logdging for the volunteers

2.            Electricity expenses during working hours

             3.          Some tools and equipments needed

             4.         Planning and organization of the whole project and activity details

             5.          Additional manpower (all our 96 students divided into 3 groups)

             6.          Culture/ sports

7.          Pictures of the existing canteen

8.          Drawing projection of the enlarged canteen

9.          Conclusion

We are excited to have our Korean friends to come over to our place and do us volunteer work. Our students will be working together with them in order to start and finish the projects, as well as to interact with them and to share a common experience. As early as now, our community is already grateful to the organizers of the project and to our Korean friends for extending help to us. We would like to make their stay truly memorable. As we would say it in Filipino, “MARAMING SALAMAT PO!” (Thank you so much).