The association «Friends of Father Guézou» (a Salesian of Don Bosco) participates in the development of Don Bosco computer training centers.
This association works to ensure that more and more young people gain access to this training, given the possibility of finding work relatively easily in this sector in India and Sri Lanka. All major IT companies (Microsoft, Apple, HP, etc.) as well as companies of all sizes have growing teams there. We also support some students in their startup projects, and several have already succeeded in the healthcare or e-commerce fields, including by selling their solutions abroad.
We make it a point of honor to welcome women and students in large numbers. This helps to catch up on the known lag of «men at work and women at home.» We thus help them to become independent like men.
The objective: to go from 200 to 400 students, girls and boys.
Friends of Father Guézou and Don Bosco in India
Father François GUEZOU is a Salesian missionary who went to India in 1952. He did the same work as Mother Teresa, she in the North and he in the South of India. He is less known because he did not wish to be as publicized, but his work is enormous.
Our main achievements
- Anti-slavery struggle Father Guézou rescued hundreds of children from this scourge by winning numerous lawsuits against the owners who employed them,
- Prevention development of leprosy in children, thanks to appropriate centers,
- Education thousands of children with the following pattern: schooling > job > income > ability to support a family (often the child even helps their parents afterward, and our association in return).
- Field of study proposal to the young very varied : manual trades (mechanics, electricity, weaving, sewing, etc.) and studies in all fields, including IT (with a developing center in Sri Lanka as well), which has been growing significantly for the past 15 years.
Results and projects
–> Young people who have left our centers have sometimes reached high-paying jobs (bank director, pilot, ministry member, etc.), which allows them to help the association in turn.
–> We are also participating in the construction of well, of care centers, of reception areas for street children and not just school children….
You will find more information and our news on our website.
Would you like to help us with this mission?
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The Don Bosco Foundation, recognized as being of public utility, is authorized to issue tax receipts for income tax (IR) and real estate wealth tax (IFI).
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Payment by bank transfer: BNP Roubaix - IBAN: FR76 3000 4005 3000 0022 5306 032
Make a check payable to «Friends of Father GUEZOU» and send it by mail to the following address: ADPG – Gilles CONESA – 6 bis rue de la vallée, 59510 HEM.
For this project, 100% of your donations are used in India and Sri Lanka (The ADPG operates solely with volunteers and incurs no administrative costs.).
Do not hesitate to ask us for any additional information: Association Amis du Père Guézou et de Don Bosco en Inde (ADPG), c/o Gilles CONESA, 6 bis rue de la vallée, 59510 HEM – contact@guezou.org – Tel: +33 6 85 52 72 61 (Rémy)
