by Father Kiran Salve
WALVANDA, JUNE 23, 2017: Sixteen scholastics from Nashik-based Divyadaan visited Don Bosco Walvanda for a two-day orientation programme on Ashram schools on June 17, 18.
For the last ten years Bosco Samajik Vikas Sanstha (BSVS), with the help of scholastics from Divyadaan, Nashik, have been working in the Ashram schools. In 2016, eighteen scholastics taught english and maths in the schools. The students benefit ted from their teaching.
BSVS works at different levels in the Jawhar and Mokhada taluka. The institution mainly focuses on social development emphasising on the rights- based approach.
Praksh Wagh, the animator while explaining the functions of Ashram schools, encouraged the scholastics to do their best in their field of work. Father Wyman Gonsalves and Jacob Palaparambil were present during the briefing.
Father Anaclete D'Mello appreciated the thoughtfulness of the Divyadaan community in sending the scholastics to Jawhar and Mokhada talukas.