Category Archives: BOVA

Back to the Future

By admin | Published: 28/02/2013

22nd-25th November Back to the Future took place at Savio House in Bollington, UK. Although the weather was wet and a little cold the participants were full of life, energy and enthusiasm to explore the idea of taking their voluntary experiences and building the future. 25 Participants from 8 countries took part. We were pleased [...]

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DBYN Network meeting – Confe Don Bosco

By Gina Hindley | Published: 21/11/2012

ON the 11th to the 14th October, myself and Partick Kerridge attended a DBYN network meeting in Logroño, Spain. The meeting was hosted by the Spanish youth ministry team, Confe Don Bosco, who were also holding their 17th congress of the Salesian youth centres at the same time. Confe Don Bosco were concentrating on how [...]

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Camp St. Francis – Update!

By admin | Published: 05/07/2012

Two volunteers (Liam Parr and Alex Snee) from the United Kingdom have gone to America and help with Camp St. Francis. Here is a little update about how they are doing over there: “So far in America, we have met so many amazing people, we have eaten a proper maccies, been to the ‘movies’, seen [...]

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Don Bosco Day in Cebu

By admin | Published: 26/02/2012

Today, 31st January, the church celebrates the feast of St John Bosco. We, on the other hand, have already been celebrating this feast for nearly a week. Lessons ended on Wednesday to be followed by three days of events and activities with the students, Sunday was family day, and yesterday the whole staff headed to [...]

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Leave Now!

By Megan Russell | Published: 18/12/2011

The title may suggest that we arrived at this DBYN seminar in Vienna just to be told to leave, but thankfully not! After 14 or so hours of travelling, I arrived to the Studentenheim Don Bosco to a warm welcome from the Salesian community and the volunteers who had already arrived. The volunteers were getting [...]

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Salesians at Greenbelt – My Experience

By Adelle Collins | Published: 10/09/2011

The journey to Cheltenham began  on a Friday afternoon with a long wait in traffic, not the most ideal situation when desperate for the loo but despite this there was much joy and laughter  I think this was driven by the feelings  of excitement about going to Greenbelt for the first time. I had no [...]

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Volunteering Page!

By admin | Published: 14/07/2011

A new section of the website is launched today, a section which hopes to promote the volunteering opportunities that the Salesians have available. The main ways to volunteer with the Salesians of Don Bosco are through BOVA (which offers an overseas volunteering experience) and at Savio House (a year of retreat work). Savio House works [...]

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Three Islands Meeting

By Megan Russell | Published: 28/06/2011

After the success of the 3-Islands meeting in Bollington last year, the Youth Ministry teams of the British, Irish and Maltese Provinces descended upon Maynooth for a weekend of sharing and learning. The working motif for the weekend was ‘a journey to, in and from the desert’, as in the desert, our questions may not [...]

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Images of the Developing World and the Risk of Disempowerment

By James Trewby | Published: 23/05/2011

One of the activities we do with BOVA volunteers during their training involves asking them to quickly jot down 5 words or phrases which “represent Africa to them” (and I’m using Africa here just as an example). Average responses include lions, elephants, vast skies, starvation, war, street children and so on.  We then read the [...]

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Salesians at Romero Lecture and March for the Alternative

By admin | Published: 28/03/2011

Fr Martin Poulsom SDB and James Trewby were part of the Salesian group who attended the Oscar Romero Memorial service and lecture and then the March for the Alternative. Rather than write a traditional article they thought they’d do something slightly different… Martin says (M): Hello, I’m here! Now I know what you mean when [...]

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