Over the past decade, the Don Bosco Youth Mission and Educational Services (DBYES), which Fr Thomas heads, has initiated many projects to educate and train scores of youth, in both formal schools and at informal youth development centres. But two experiments stand out: the Bosco Barefoot College (BBC) which helps empower school dropouts from the Northeast’s rural areas and the UNICEF-supported Deprived Urban Children (DUC) programme. The latter aims at getting as many of the 20,000 out-of-school children in Guwahati into classrooms.
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