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Selling Textile Machines

The Don Bosco Technical School of Sihanoukville (Cambodia) got a Raschelina RD3 3/630 Warp knitting machine and a Varitex V5Ni Narrow frabic loom as a donation from Jakob Müller AG on February 8th, 2006 "for any Private Show or trial operation if necessary, but subject to mutual agreement." Since then the machine has remained in the installations of Don Bosco Technical School in a good condition. As the program of sewing section was closed, Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia asked to Jakob Müller AG to decide if the machine would be move to other organization, repatriate or sell to a best place where they can be more useful. Jakob Müller agreed with Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia that "if possible, we would appreciate if the machine (s) now in your possession and not being used, could be sold to a buyer/user in Cambodia". In this case, we are offering to any buyer/user in Cambodia the machines. Any question to this regard can be addressed to Fr Albeiro Rodas, Vice Rector of Don Bosco Technical School Sihanoukville, albeiror24@gmail.com - H.P. (855) 17 399 864. Any person, organization or company interested in one or both machines, could make an offer.

Rachelina

As your machine is equipped it can be used for making elastic tapes which are used in underwear or sportswear. The max. width of the tapes which can be made on your machine is approx. 50 - 55 mm.

The acceptable price of the machine is 10,000 USD. Shipping it as far as USA has a cost of about 1,000 USD. It is acceptable to include the shipping in 10,000.

Please click here to go to eBay for the Rachelina

Varitex

As the machine is equipped it allows to weave non-elastic tapes of up to approx. 22 - 23 mm width which are generally used in garments.

The acceptable price of the machine is 5,000 USD. Shipping it as far as USA has a cost of about 1,000 USD. It is acceptable to include the shipping in 5,000.

Please click here to go to eBay for the Varitex

Funds for our Works

The amount will go to the Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia, an organization working in Cambodia since 1991 supporting technical education for youth of poor conditions. The program to be supported is the one of social communication at Don Bosco Technical School.

It is acceptable a change of equipment: the school needs instruments for social communication (radio station and television mini studio). The Varitex could be changed by any equipment that could see with radio and television (camaras, mixers, microphones, etc).

Find more information and pictures at the official page of Don Bosco Sihanoukville Website (www.donboscosihanoukville.org). The page of the Varitex will be created after November 20, 2008.

Questions

Are the machine complete?

Yes, it is. The machines were cared by the school and not part has been removed, damage or lost.

What is the condition of the machines?

The machines have been in the school since 2006. Since then, they have been cleaned and got a due maintenance. However, if you want a careful report about every part of the machines with specific questions and more pictures, please email me and you will get it soon.

All the components of the machines are at their place according with the manual of use?

Yes, they are. You can inquire again by email and you will get a more detail report.

Do you have the instruction book along with the machines?

Yes, we have the instruction book plus all the considerations given by Müller and how to use and care for them.

Is there any damage in the machines?

Not at all. They never got a problem while they were in the school.

How old are the machines?

They arrived to the school in February 2006 from Germany. At the time they were new, so they are two years and eight months with us.

When were the machines last used?

They were used until December 2007, before the sewing section was closed.

After they were not used, how you store the machines?

They remained in the same room and the administration ordered a regular maintenance. They avoid to move the machines in order to keep them in good conditions.

If I am in a country different to Cambodia, how I will transport the machines?

Sihanoukville is a harbor. I think the best way is to put them into a container. However, we can discuss any possibility and how we can share expenses in this way. We have to do documents in order to bring them out of Cambodia. If you are inside Cambodia, I recommend you to have a vehicle appropriate to their transport.

Can I give you back the machines if I do not like them?

Yes, you can do so but before 30 business days and you will run the expenses of the devolution.

Can I get any technical support in order to use them?

Yes, we have some persons who know very well how to use them. If you come, you can meet them, talk to them by phone or invite them to visit your place if you are settled in Cambodia.

If you are a NGO, what are you going to do with the money of the machines?

The machines were a donation from Müller. If we get the sell, we will notify Müller of it. Lickely, the money becomes a fund to support one of our education programs inside the Don Bosco Technical School of Sihanoukville. For example, we want to create the social communication laboratory for the students of social com., the program that replaced the former sewing section.

Father John: 75 years younger!!!

This week has been busy for Father John with celebrations in Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh with a Bishop in the schedule.

August 2 is his birthday and a very especial one: his 75th August and a heart of youth and commitment worthy of Don Bosco.

Last Friday the Don Bosco Technical School community of Sihanoukville, the place where he is currently the rector, dedicated songs and gifts to Father John. He got a new phone model, a little small for his big fingers, but he was happy the same with the appreciation shown by his sons and daugthers at the place.

Saturday the Salesian communities of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh gathered in Don Bosco PP for the retreat with the preach of the Salesian Bishop Prathan on Lectio Divina. Mgrs. Prathan was invited by Father John and he accepted willingly, with all the affection he has for Cambodia. At the end of the retreat the Salesians song again a Happy Birthday to you for this 75 years old missionary, younger than ever.






In Phnom Pehn with the Salesian Bishop Prathan.

Some teachers and father Albeiro (right of Father John) in Don Bosco Sihanoukville.

From The Netherlands to Sihanoukville by land

Miss Jobien Rentmeester, 35 and Mr Kees van Dam, 24, are these days in Sihanoukville giving a hand in the Don Bosco Hotel School . Normally Europeans, either tourists or volunteers, come to Cambodia by plain. But this case is different. Both of them have crossed more than 8 thousand kilometers from The Nederland to the South East Asian country during three months. Jobien was born in Heinkenszand ( Holland ) and is an expert in tourism, marketing and brain management working as a consultant in a job agency in her country. Kees is currently studying criminology with emphasis in sociology.

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Happy Khmer New Year for all the friends of Don Bosco Cambodia.

Our Websites

This month our websites have suffered a real Passover :(: Our Internet connection has been a mess and the updates slow. At least we have the blogger to say that and remind our friends that we are here, in Don Bosco Cambodia, working day by day to build new generations of youth with a technical skill.

These are the Websites we are working:

Don Bosco Khmer

Don Bosco Khmer can found in this link: www.donboscokhmer.org

The site has gotten a new face in the last weeks and we got also a best page rank. The idea of Don Bosco Khmer is to have a site for the general description of the projects of Don Bosco in Cambodia. Although the name, "Khmer", the information in Khmer is little, but as soon as we have our students of social communication in Sihanoukville ready to be the Khmer writers and with the help of KhmerOs softwares, I think it would have more information in Khmer and other languages too.

Don Bosco Cambodia

Actually this site should be the English version ot Don Bosco Khmer and I considere we should walk to that objective. For now, both sites are interconnected, so the DBKhmer keeps the descriptions and DCCambodia the documents. The other advantage is that the people outside Cambodia looks for DBCambodia in the search pages rather than DBKhmer that is understood as a site in Khmer. Other task for our section of social communication. :)

The link is www.donboscocambodia.com

Don Bosco Sihanoukville

Here is one local, a site dedicated to one of our works: the Technical School, the Hotel School and other activities in the port city of Sihanoukville. Of course, we have the social communication section here, so the websites are being coordinated from here.

The link is www.donboscosihanoukville.org

Don Bosco Hotel School

This other local one dedicated to the Hotel School in Sihanoukville. Of course, this site is very important because many people see the information in the site to decide if they want to stay in a hotel that is also a school. Many visitors from abroad have booked thanks to the site.

The link is www.donboscohotelschool.com

Other experiences

And of course we have many other experiences that have been useful for our education process. Some bloggers are information we elaborate in classes like http://camboya.wordpress.com, a kind of resume of news about Cambodia in Spanish, http://iseecambodia.blog.com/, a blog made by the students coordinated by Mr Buntha, one of the instructors of social communication section and other experiences.

It would be nice for us to know your opinion about our sites, because they are a space of educational tool for our students in Don Bosco. Just let us a comment here or send us an email to albeiror24@gmail.com

Salesian Cooperators in Don Bosco Sihanoukville

Sihanoukville. The Feast of Saint Francis de Sales had a two important moments for the presence of Don Bosco in Cambodia and the work of Sihanoukville: three young men made their promise as the first Cambodian Salesian Cooperators, while the Chapel of the school was dedicated to Saint Francis de Sales. Actually they were two Cambodians and a Colombian: Gnan Peun, Sri Thea and Yulth Oyola, who asked to be integrated in the Salesian Family as cooperators.

Gnan Peun joined Don Bosco Phnom Penh in 1995 as an orphan boy from Koh Kong in the Mechanical Section. In 1997 was sent by father John Visser, then Rector in Phnom Penh, to "take care of the works of construction of Don Bosco Sihanoukville". Since then he stayed in the city port with Don Bosco where he married, has two children and became Catholic in 2006. "I want to stay with Don Bosco forever", he said. Peun is the coordinator of discipline in the technical school.

Sri Thea joined Don Bosco Phnom Penh as a boy from Takaew Province in 1995, also to the Mechanical Section. He stayed in Phnom Penh as an instructor in that section and became Catholic. In 2002 he let Don Bosco Phnom Penh and went to his Province where he founded an Oratory dedicated to the children and youth of the region supported by Don Bosco Past Pupils of Cambodia.

Yulth Oyola is not Cambodian but he feels like. He is a volunteer in Don Bosco Sihanoukville since 2007 in the Social Communication Department. This young business administrator from Colombia has become a careful student of the Salesian Preventive System. "I knew little about Don Bosco when I was in Colombia, only I knew that near my city, Villavicencio, there is a Salesian school for agriculture. When I came as a volunteer to Don Bosco Cambodia, I realized how great is Don Bosco and I applied to be a part of the Salesian Family. When I will be back in Colombia, I am sure I will help as I can Don Bosco in my country."

The Chapel where the three made their promise as Salesian Cooperators was also dedicated to Sain Francis de Sales being the first place in Cambodia dedicated directly to the Patron of the Salesian Congregation. The ceremony was attended by the boarders of the technical school and among them the "Don Bosco Brother Sun Youth Group" and the leaders of the Oratory in a moment that became for them very meaningful. Most of them understood the meaning of "Salesian" looking at the face of this Francis de Sales near to their Don Bosco.

Piet de Visser and John Van der Voort visited Don Bosco Sihanoukville

Sihanoukville. Last Friday, 25th January, the Educational Community of Don Bosco Sihanoukville received the visit of two of the most consecrated benefactors of the Salesian work in Cambodia: Piet de Visser and John Van Der Voort, bot of them from the Netherlands.

Piet de Visser started his support since 2000 helping in the running expenses of the technical centers of Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and Poipet through his “Foundation for Cambodia”.

“I decided that persons like the Salesians need this kind of support, because I realized that they work for the poor and they do not look for things for themselves”, he answered in the brief conference press he gave when one of the students asked why he helps Don Bosco Cambodia.

Mister de Visser said also that Cambodia is changing and he is happy to see a better standard of life in the cities, although countryside still poor and undeveloped.

The two benefactors visited the installations of the Hotel School and the Technical Sections. The students and instructors gathered to greet them:

“This is your house. May God bless you for all that you do for us. We, the young people, are very lucky to have people like you that help us to grow as good persons for our country”, said one of the students.

Gallery of the visit

Mr Peat and Mr John during the ceremony of welcome by the Educational Community.


Master Sambo, student of social communication section, giving the words of welcome to the guests.

Mr. Peat de Visser with the social communication students.


The two benefactors with the class.

Motorbike safety campaign?

Sihanoukville (Australasia News): 20th January 2008 -- The death, yesterday afternoon, of a past pupil who had finished his studies in the electrical section of Don Bosco Sihanoukville in 2006, has local Salesians wondering if there is not a need to mount a serious campaign, especially amongst the young motorbike riders they know, to prevent what has led to the death of two students, a teacher and now a past pupil over a period of twelve months.
Suaung Sophoan, 23 years of age, was in collision with another motorbike and both were run over by a container truck. Three persons died and three others were injured in the accident. The incident occurred near the busy port where heavy container-loaded trucks pose a constant threat to motorists and especially bikers.
Most students and many young people, including children, use motorbikes as a means of transport in Cambodia. There is no law, at least no enforced law which prevents anyone from riding a motorbike and a single vehicle may often carry three or more persons. Many young people refuse to wear helmets because they consider them too hot to wear.
Suaung Sophoan came from a region near the border with Vietnam and was working in Sihanoukville following his successful completion of a two year technical course at Don Bosco. He was living alone in the city. An ecumenical prayer for Suaung will follow on Monday in the St. Francis de Sales Chapel at Don Bosco.

Visit to three radio stations in Phnom Penh

Sihanoukville, 17th January 2008. Last Monday finished the 1rst Radio Seminar in the Social Communication Section that was directed by Mr Sarathany during a week. The visit to the Radio Stations was the last part of the seminar and it was also an opportunity to know the ways and advances of radio broadcasting in Cambodia. The first visit was to the National Radio of Cambodia where the students appreciated the new equipment and antennas that are going to be placed in far provinces to make easy communication with farmers. The second radio station belongs to Equal Access, an international NGO that works to create nets of communication around the world, especially in poor countries. The third radio station belongs to a Christian church settled in Cambodia that has excellent installations donated by Dutch donors. The students were very well welcome by the personnel of the three stations and the youth liked what they learned in this intensive seminar. Mr Sarathany is coordinator in a radio station in Banteay Meanchey province and has a degree in radio journalism from the University of Phnom Penh. He got interest with the project of social communication in Don Bosco Sihanoukville and has been very kind to the school.