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ROME, JUNE 11, 2008: Sixteen members of the Don Bosco Network (DBN) met at the Sacro Cuore Salesian Centre in Rome, on June 9. They represented the seven NGOs, all European-based, who make up the DBN. The meeting’s purpose, other than being the Annual General Assembly of the body, focused in particular on structural and institutional change brought about by the need for DBN to respond to ‘youth at the heart of development’, the characteristic Salesian feature of the Network. The assembly also elected its new President, in the person of Françoise Léonard, of COMIDE, Belgium, who replaced the outgoing president Hans-Juergen Dorrich of Jugend Dritte Welt (JDW), Germany.
Present for the assembly was Fr Vaclav Klement, the newly elected Salesian General Councilor for the Missions. Though currently mainly European-based, DBN is aiming to become a worldwide network of Salesian NGOs. This entails structural reform as the body looks at expansion. The assembly took up a range of reflections on geographical and partnership expansion, strategic location of offices and reinforced contacts with the Salesian General Council, the desire and the ‘how’ of acting together under a common name. Lengthy consideration was also given to a set of principles and guidelines for international cooperation on a north-south axis to help deal with partnership requests from Don Bosco Partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and also Eastern Europe.
Note: The PSP process and the setting up of Development Offices across India was largely an initiative of Ms. Françoise Léonard and was funded by COMIDE. Several projects presently underway in the Mumbai Province are being supported by the DBN especially JDW, Germany.
ROME, JUNE 11, 2008: Sixteen members of the Don Bosco Network (DBN) met at the Sacro Cuore Salesian Centre in Rome, on June 9. They represented the seven NGOs, all European-based, who make up the DBN. The meeting’s purpose, other than being the Annual General Assembly of the body, focused in particular on structural and institutional change brought about by the need for DBN to respond to ‘youth at the heart of development’, the characteristic Salesian feature of the Network. The assembly also elected its new President, in the person of Françoise Léonard, of COMIDE, Belgium, who replaced the outgoing president Hans-Juergen Dorrich of Jugend Dritte Welt (JDW), Germany.
Present for the assembly was Fr Vaclav Klement, the newly elected Salesian General Councilor for the Missions. Though currently mainly European-based, DBN is aiming to become a worldwide network of Salesian NGOs. This entails structural reform as the body looks at expansion. The assembly took up a range of reflections on geographical and partnership expansion, strategic location of offices and reinforced contacts with the Salesian General Council, the desire and the ‘how’ of acting together under a common name. Lengthy consideration was also given to a set of principles and guidelines for international cooperation on a north-south axis to help deal with partnership requests from Don Bosco Partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and also Eastern Europe.Note: The PSP process and the setting up of Development Offices across India was largely an initiative of Ms. Françoise Léonard and was funded by COMIDE. Several projects presently underway in the Mumbai Province are being supported by the DBN especially JDW, Germany.