A Change of Plan

Before we arrived in Cebu we were expecting to be working in a home for Boys, not actually in Cebu itself but in a small town outside the city called Liloan.

Yesterday morning Brother Carlo who is responsible for all the volunteers told us that we weren't going to be able to live and work in the Boys' Home. This is for a variety of reasons.

Instead we are going to a different Salesian centre called the 'Don Bosco Technology Centre'.  On the site are a Primary School, Secondary School and a Vocational Training Centre. A handful of  students live onsite but the vast majority live in the local area. Nearby there is a parish church which is run by the Salesians, in the parish buildings there is a youth centre, an education centre to supplement the local schools and give the children somewhere to do homework, and there is a feeding centre which serves food to children from 0-6 who otherwise might not be given adequate food.

So it looks like there will be plenty of possibilities for work we might do.

Given time to make the necessary mental adjustments I think the new project has a lot of potential. We will most likely move there on Monday.