About Us
Don Bosco Technical & Youth Centre
Lahore, Pakistan — Est. 1999
Our Story
Who Are We?
Back in 1999, Don Bosco Technical & Youth Centre Lahore was founded as a private technical institute. Practicing excellence in technical education and formal education, learning and a close partnership with industry, its commitment and hard work earned a well-reputed place in the aspects of technical and formal studies.
The Don Bosco Educational Society provides a variety of vocational training programs as per community needs and industrial/corporate requirements to address the issue of unemployment among youth.
Through the Don Bosco Education project, we are also providing quality education at low cost to the marginalized communities in Pakistan — without any distinction on the basis of religion, caste, gender, or denomination.
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Our Core Values
Mission, Vision & Impact
Mission
Empowering Youth Through Quality Education. Providing vocational and technical training to underprivileged youth so they can build dignified, self-sufficient lives.
Vision
We, the community of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, aim to integrally form the youth towards excellence by promoting values and skills through education and generating dignified and honest citizens.
How We Impact
Don Bosco Educational Society provides vocational training programs per community needs and industrial requirements, addressing unemployment among youth while offering quality education at low cost to marginalized communities.
Our Founder
St. John Bosco
"Da Mihi Animas Caetera Tolle" — Give me souls, take away the rest.
John Bosco was born at Castelnuovo d'Asti on 16 August 1815, of a family of peasant farmers. His father, Francis Bosco, died when John was just two, and Margaret Occhiena found herself bringing up Anthony, Joseph and John alone. With firm kindness and unbounded faith, Margaret — wise educator that she was — made her family into a domestic church.
From when he was small, John began to feel a desire to become a priest. In June 1841 he was ordained. His spiritual director, Fr. Cafasso, advised him to complete his studies at the Ecclesiastical Institute. Later as a young priest, Don Bosco gathered his first boys around him and organized a festive oratory, initially on the move but then stabilized at Valdocco.
The Preventive System
Don Bosco began to give a place to boys without a home to go to. He taught them skills, and to love the Lord; he sang, played and prayed with them. He developed his famous educational method — the Preventive System: "Be with the boys, prevent sin through reason, religion and loving kindness."
Over time the first helpers, with the help of Pope Pius IX, became a Congregation aimed at the salvation of the young, fighting all forms of poverty. Young Saint Dominic Savio is the first fruit of the Preventive System.
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Significant Milestones
Rectors Major of the Congregation
Community Service
Humanitarian Assistance
COVID-19 Humanitarian Response — Supporting over 2000 families across Pakistan.
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic severely affected the global and Pakistani economies. Major victims of this outbreak were daily wages laborers and lower-middle-class families. Strict lockdowns at different levels badly affected their economic conditions and made them more vulnerable and marginalized.
Don Bosco Educational Society and Salesians in Pakistan supported more than 2000 families with food packages across Pakistan. The said support was provided without any distinction on the basis of religion, caste, gender, or denomination.
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Punjab Board of Technical Education (PBTE)
Punjab Skills Development Authority (PSDA)
National Vocational & Technical Commission (NAVTTC)
Don Bosco Green Alliance Member