Every year youngsters and educators meet to reflect on the educative work that has been done in the diverse Salesian houses. The Don Bosco House in Ayacucho, which celebrates 75 years of existence, is the venue that hosts the 10th Encounter of Youth and Assistance Team for children and adolescents at risk, in which 93 people are participating: 36 teachers, among religious and lay people, and 57 adolescents, coming from all the Salesian Houses of Peru.
Fr. Jorge Atarama, SDB, who is in charge of the Network of the Don Bosco Houses, commented that this type of gatherings unites youth and educators “who reflect on the educative and vocational work that must be done to produce a professional activity for the benefit of the youth”. This is certainly a delicate task, “since many of those who are hosted in the reception homes arrive with serious personal problems, and must be offered a qualified and professional service”.
In her turn, Giomara Yadira, and adolescent of the home for the “Lauritas” girls of Quebrada Honda, declared: “This meeting made me acquainted with the experiences of the other Don Bosco Houses. The most beautiful thing is that all of us work to grow as persons and with a Christian identity”. Enderson Rodríguez on the other hand highlights that “boys often arrive at the reception home with many problems, and these encounters help us to understand in what we are lacking and how to commit ourselves in order to change”.
“The main idea is to strengthen the teams that serve children and adolescents at high risk through spaces of integration and exchange of experiences, so as to unify the criteria of intervention”, stressed Fr. Raul Acuña, who accompanies the boys in the Salesian House of the Breña-Lima district.
