Mexico City, Mexico – September 2024 – At the end of September, Fr Ignacio Ocampo Uribe, Superior of the Mexico-Mexico Province (MEM), accompanied by Fr José Antonio Hernández Valdez, SDB, Head of the Vocational Training Centres in the Tláhuac and Tlalpan area, Fr Davide Tonini, local parish priest, and Fr Carlos Barbosa Castillo, Director of the Central American Institute (ICA), led a programme of activities that formally opened and launched the new Salesian-Tlapan ‘San José Obrero’ Vocational Training Centre. More than 80 guests from different Salesian houses in the metropolitan area attended the presentation of the project, the delivery of awards to those who have already completed some training standards, the message of the Provincial, the blessing of the structures, the cutting of the ribbon; there were also some tasting lessons, tasting gastronomic products made at the VTC and a gala concert offered by the "Río Sabina" string quartet. In the words of Fr Miguel Ángel Lezama Rojas, it was a "Day of hope and motivation to join forces on behalf of the young recipients of the project".