Slovakian families to assist Solomon Island students
BRATISLAVA: 25th January 2006 -- Slovakian
volunteer, Ms Alena Takacova was originally a successful software
developer-engineer in Bratislava, working for Siemens. She has
put in two stints of volunteer service in the Solomon Islands, 5 months
in 2003 and a further 7 months in 2005, working in Tetere parish at the
rural training centre there. She was invited at the time by a
Slovakian Salesian missionary working there, Fr Peter Kuchar, and
slowly came to know Don Bosco, his family and spirituality by living in
the parish compound behind the local Sisters' convent.
Ms Takacova is now preparing her third period of
service which she hopes to begin some time in February. In the
meantime, back in Slovakia, she has been able to set up a 'Distance
adoption scheme', for some 50 SI High School students to cover their
school fees and give them an opportunity to complete their
education. The students come from the Tetere Parish area, and the
scheme is carried out through the intermediary efforts of the SLK
Provincial mission animation centre in Bratislava-Mileticova. In
this way she is trying to build bridges between the two distant
Salesian places, although Ms Takacova is not yet formally a member of
the Salesian Family. Ms Takacova is doing one other thing for her
adopted mission - she is setting up a website for the parish which will
be hosted in Slovakia and available in English and Slovakian.
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