A Scholl For The Businesses

The Don Bosco Technical Industrial College is a reality. The 2004 started its class with a thousand an forty-nine students between 1st and 3rd of high level. Three hundred and sixty of them have already selected their specialty and they are using the workshops and laboratories, recently finished. They are four specialties in the College: Electricity, Electronic, Automobile Mechanics (Heavy Machinery) and Industrial Mechanics.

More than the eighty-five percent of the required installations for the classes are ready. More than three million American dollars invested in this process, the money has been donated by the businesses of the Antofagasta Industrial Association. A total success, if we consider that the School opened its doors in 2002.

But not everything that shines is gold, there are weaknesses, we haven’t enough gardens and sport courts, we need more classrooms, we don´t have a gym, events room, or a Chapel.

We still need over one million, three hundred thousand American dollars to finish the structure. With this complete, we will have the necessary vehicle to give a first level education, destined to cover the needs of the businesses today. It´s easy to say it, but this is the challenge that we have faced, since the beginning and the task is stimulate and necessary. We already did the most difficult. We doubled the curve that indicates the half of the road, and the end appears near.

We trust that the businesses that assume this project, will initiate a participation in the plan of the private education in our region. We urgently need more donations, especially for the actual construction necessary for the students who will attend in march of 2005.