Australia – 2016, a great year for the Cagliero Project

16 March 2016

(ANS - Melbourne) – This year 2016 promises to be a great year for the Cagliero Project, the missionary volunteer programme of the Salesians of Australia. In recent weeks, several young people and adults have begun to collaborate in the Salesian centres of the East Asia-Oceania region, and among them also, for the first time, an entire family.

They are Kane and Renee Bowden, with their children Ethan, Jedd and Yasmin, the first family to be sent as volunteers with the Cagliero Project.  The family will spend a year collaborating in the activities of the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Joining them will be Madelaine Smith, another volunteer of the Cagliero Project, a social worker already active in her parish.

David Fong, a teacher with ten years’ experience, and Elizabeth Waters, a university student, will also be working in Cambodia, but in Sihanoukville.

Another volunteer, Katie Sabel, is working in Alafua, Samoa.

All volunteers of the programme have been properly trained in the months before departure. The Cagliero Project pays great attention to the cultural preparation of volunteers, aware that the success of their service depends largely on their ability to integrate into the environment, so to be present among young people and able to walk in a spirit of genuine sympathy and solidarity with them.

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