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Mission:
- Developing volunteers – bringing (young) people to be able
to help young people in need (minority groups, children without family
background, children and youngsters in developing countries ...) by meaningful
spending of leisure time with them and their spiritual education.
- Help for developing countries
- To implement Salesian prevention educational system and
oratory criteria in every-day work with youth
- To enable the young people meet and get to know other young
Christians and encourage their involvement in church and Salesian work in this
way.
Example activities:
- Program Cagliero – (named after the first Salesian
missionary) – training and sending volunteers (above 18 years old) for a
long-term voluntary service – in the Czech Republic, Europe and also in the
developing countries (Mexico, india, congo, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, etc.)
- Salesian animators – training courses for young people
(above 15 years old) who would like to serve other young people especially in
the Salesian projects in the Czech Republic ( a three-year training)
- Program Margherita – a two-day-training of adult volunteers
from youth centres in the Czech Republic
- Irregular projects on the national level
- National gathering of the Salesian animators
- Co-ordination of the visit of the Rector Major in the Czech
Republic 2006
- Big quiz – competition about Don Boscoi
- Meeting of Salesians (weekend action for boys and young men)
- International activities (beginning)
Background:
- NFO
recognised by the Czech government
- Salesian
platform – associates the Czech Salesian youth centres (appr. 13) together with
the Salesian province Prague
- New
organisation (founded July 2005)
- Motivation
for foundation – few years back we wanted to start a more professional training
program for volunteers, but we realised that to be allowed to do this, we have
to be formally registered by the government – first we registered the Salesian
Province in Prague officially as the organisation that is giving training for
the volunteers, but still we were searching for another legal form that would
cover (co-ordinate) the Salesian activities exceeding the youth centres, the
activities on the national level – and at the same time an organisation that
would be an official partner on the international level.