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Japan supports Don Bosco in education
Solomon
Star report
HONIARA: 26 August 2005 -- Japan
has provided more that SI $ 270,000 for a project designed to provide
students of Don Bosco Technical Institute with opportunities to be
involved with their educational activities.
The Technical Institute will
soon have an additional new workshop building for their Rural Training
Centre at Tetere on Guadalcanal
Province under the
Japanese Government funding. A grant
contract was signed on Thursday, 18 August, 2005, between the Japanese
Charge d’Affairs, Mr. Katsuhiko Kubo and the Director of the Institute,
Fr. Luciano Capelli sdb. With the contract
now signed the students will have an additional improved RTC facility
within the Solomon
Islands. Construction
work will start soon and the building to house the mechanical training,
is expected to be completed next year.
“Students like you will share the future of this
nation and will contribute towards the rebuilding and reconstruction of
Solomon Islands. We are pleased to participate in your
contribution to rebuilding your nation,” said Mr. Kubo.
He said that the funding of the RTC construction
was an expression of the good will of the people of Japan to the friendly people of Solomon Islands, and he hoped to
strengthen the friendship between Japan
and Solomon Islands.
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