DON BOSCO YOUTH ANIMATION CENTRE – ENNORE

Animation Centre

As it is a Youth Animation Centre, every year thousands of young people and youth animators, preachers, priests, nuns, youth leaders, social workers etc., drawn from different religious communities and groups in the State, come to the Centre for a variety of animation programmes. The Centre also plans systematic courses with several modules for the training of youth animators with a regular follow up of its effectiveness. As a result, about 200 youth animators will be formed every year. The Youth Commission of the Province also joins in this venture. The Salesian staff is also engaged in animation programmes outside the centre. The EPP of the community has set its goals quite clearly and envisages a bright future for the Centre.

Tailoring, Typing and Computer Centres

There are 22 girls in the tailoring centre and 20 girls in the typing centre. Boys and girls who have passed Standard VIII are eligible. The new batch of computer trainees for the current academic year is yet to arrive. With the help of Vazhikaatti, 30 students were trained last year.

Evening Study

There are about 417 children from Standards I to XII, in the main evening study centre on our campus, with 10 teachers to look after them. In the other two centres at Ennorekuppam and Thazhankuppam, there are 23 and 41 children respectively, with 2 teachers each. The CFCA sponsors the staff salary for the main centre, while Don Bosco Anbu Illam sponsors the other two centres, besides providing school books and stationery for all the children.

Self-Help Groups

The Community organizes Self-Help Groups for the women of the locality, especially the mothers of children who come for the Evening study. There are 12 Self-Help groups which are trained in various small profit-making home-based skills. About 350 members, mostly women, form part of these groups. Some of them have gone through the training for preparing products such as pickles, jam, fruit juice, chalk pieces, etc. The importance of small saving schemes too is insisted upon, and the women are slowly becoming interested in them. They meet twice a month. The Director is in charge of these groups.

dbennore@donboscochennai.org

Don Bosco Youth Animation Centre
Ennore,
CHENNAI – 600 057.