Category: EVENTS

A BAMBU GEODESIC DOME ASSEMBLY workshop was rolled out at Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban. This one-day workshop was a collaboration between the Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) -Cebu, Don Bosco and Bamboo Horizons.

The workshop included the Basics of Bamboo, the Computation of a Geodesics Dome and the hands on Assembly of a 6 meter diameter Geodesic Dome.The same Bamboo workshop was done last April 6, 2022 at Don Bosco Boys Home Liloan.

We thank our Bosconian Architects – Arch. Bryan Auman for sharing his advocacy for bamboo as a sustainable source of lumber for construction, Arch. Eric Nacorda representing PIA-Cebu for facilitating the roll-out of this bamboo workshop and Mr. Robert of Bamboo Horizons.

This workshop is in line with Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban’s advocacy for a Green TVET and eventually for providing green jobs to the community.

Lenie Yap-Aldea, Program Manager of BDO Foundation and Engr. Wilbert Sy, BDO project engineer visited Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban for an ocular and technical visit for a construction of a BDO building which will house additional qualifications of Carpentry, Technical Drafting, Construction Painting, Tile Setting in the construction sector.

We thank God for this timely blessing for the technical vocational education and training of the poor, the lost and abandoned.

God is good all the time.

Happy happy Birthday to our ever supportive Technical Director, Fr. Brian Butanas. Thank you for being a Don Bosco amidst the the staff and students of Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban. We offer you prayers of good health and blessings to you especially in your ministry for the poor, the lost and the abandoned young people. God bless you always.

The Office of the Mayor organized an information and dissemination drive on Cebu City’s Scholarship Programs for its Barangay Councilors Committee on Education. Don Bosco’s presence on education for the marginalized youth was made through Fr. Brian Butanas SDB who spoke about the TVET programs of our Don Bosco TVET Centers.

Finally, The Relic of St John Bosco has found a home in Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban last March 21, 2022.

Relics are divided into three classifications. A first class relic is a body part of a saint, such as bone, blood, or flesh. Second class relics are possessions that a saint owned, and third class relics are objects that have been touched to a first or second class relic or the saint has touched him or herself.Our relic of St John Bosco is a first class relic from the bones of the saint.

Any Bosconian who visits Don Bosco Balamban can kiss and show his respect to the Father of Youth.

The Salesians and Staff of Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban completed the 40 hours of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) at Netz Training Services.

We thank our DOLE Accredited Resource Speakers Dr. CORNELIO G. DUASO, RN LLANE JOCSON CONCEPCION, ENGR. QUINCIANO P. SALDANA and ENGR. DELIUS M. CUEVA for sharing their expertise with us as Occupational Safety and Health practitioners in the construction sector.

This is in preparation for the UTPRAS registration of allied programs to our Welding Technology in the Construction Sector. All the participants are now Safety Officers 2.

Thank you to Don Bosco One TVET Philippines for sponsoring the COSH Seminar.

The PCNC Team of Don Bosco Boys’ Home and Training Center made a mock audit of the PCNC documentation of Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban. PCNC is one of the deliverables of the logframe of the Don Bosco One TVET Philippines 2nd Phase Project sponsored by the German Ministry and Don Bosco Mondo.

The PCNC Team of Don Bosco Boys’ Home and Training Center is led by Fr. Cesar Manlosa Jr. together with Mrs. Guada Montana and Mrs. Jessica Bautista. Thank you for your kind help and guidance.

Surprise visit from Mr. Jonathan King (far right) to Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban. He is an Alumnus of Don Bosco Technical Institute and had Fr. Jomar Legaspi as his Principal in the 90’s. Once a Bosconian, always a Bosconian. He is a true blooded Cebuano too. Thank you for the visit and support to the Bosconians in Cebu who were helping feed the poor at the start of the pandemic in 2020.

10 staff of Don Bosco TVET Center Balamban undergoing a 2 weekend Construction Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) Training at NETZ Training Services at Lawaan 3 Talisay City. This is in preparation for the offering of allied qualifications in the construction sector. (2 Weekends: March 12-13 and March 19-20)

Today we started the 40 days of the Lenten Season with the Catholic Tradition of Ash Wednesday. The Holy Father has enjoined all Christians and non-Christians to make Ash Wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for our suffering Sisters and Brothers in Ukraine and World Peace. The ashes on our foreheads reminds us of our mortality … “Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you will return” and it is also a sign of our repentance of our sinfulness and the need for the love and mercy of God.