CEBU CITY, Cebu - After signing a Memorandum of Agreement with the Don Bosco Training and Youth Center-Pasil early this month at the Eduardo Aboitiz Development Students Center, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) is set to provide education assistance to vocational technical students of the Don Bosco Traning and Youth Center-Pasil.

The educational assistance, which is worth P1.4 million is expected to benefit a total of 100 students for five years, starting this school year.

RAFI will provide for the one-year training cost of 10 voc-tech students every year for five years in the amount of P22,565 per student and for the six-month training cost of 10 garment technology students every year for five years in the amount of P6,700 per student.

“This assistance will have an immediate and long-term impact. This can go a long way because it will help keep our center going and will help the entire community as well,” Fr. Abundio Bacatan, Salesians of Don Bosco administrator, said.

Don Bosco Training and Youth Center-Pasil is a training center for children and the youth from the surrounding depressed communities in Pasil.

The educational assistance program of Don Bosco caters to academically deserving children and youth from impoverished families. It also provide technical and academic training activities to children and the youth in such neighboring barangays as Ermita, Sawang Calero, and Mambaling.