Mailnews_old

austraLasia 856

Bangalore 'BOSCO' Director receives award today.

BANGALORE: 12th June '04 -- Fr. Koottungal Vargheese, the Executive Director of BOSCO, Bangalore has been chosen by the Department of Labour, Government of Karnataka, for the "Makkala Mithra" state award for the year 2004, for the extraordinary achievements of BOSCO in the field of eradication of Child Labour. The award carries Rs. 10,000/- in cash and a 'Citation of Recognition'. The award is to be presented to Fr. Vargheese at a special function held at Vidhan Saudha today,12th June 2004.

BOSCO in this instance is in fact an acronym in the Kanada language of Bangalore. In English it would mean, simply, the Bangalore work for street children.

________________________

'austraLasia' is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia-Pacific, extending through East Asia-Oceania and South Asia regions. It functions also as an agency for ANS, based in Rome. If you wish to add to or be removed from this list please contact jbfox@sdb.org . Back issues of austraLasia are available on www.bosconet.aust.com . Consider also the possibility of contributing to Lexisdb

List of Articles
No.	Category	Subject	Views
3030	India	1780_Cross-region meeting on Volunteers at Kochi	303
3029	World	2418_Fire destroys part of community residence at Amgalan in Mongolia	303
3028	FIS	2751_Don Bosco blackmailed	303
3027	AUL	0149_NOBEL LAUREATE OPENS AUSTRALASIAN SDB CONGRESS	304
3026	AUL	1052_Aus Salesian School Leaders Prepare for Conference	304
3025	EAO	1526_BoscoWiki is born - puts the 'we' in web to work	304
3024	EAO	1530_The conversation has begun - let it continue!	304
3023	AUL	1672_Scholar, author, provincial dedicates latest book to Australian confreres	304
3022	EAO	1918_EAO Rectors - a profile	304
3021	FIS	1765_Hidden treasures: DBTC Cebu	305
3020	World	2258_Cast out into the deep - the ever-widening net of WYD	305
3019		0512_Missing	306
3018		0518_Missing	306
»	India	0856_Bangalore 'BOSCO' Director receives award today.	307
3016	AUL	1895_New Chapel at Dominic College, Tasmania, wins Australian Architectural award	307
3015	AUL	2684_Scholar speaks to people through a 'friendly guide'	307
3014	CIN	3127_Don Bosco Prize awarded for the first year	307
3013	GIA	1203_Tokyo's 6 SDB parishes come together to pray and to plan Salesian Family common project	308
3012	VIE	1871_49 new priests in Salesian-guided diocese of Bui Chu	308
3011	Pac.	2008_Savai'i ordination rounds off a run of five in Australia-Pacific	308

No.

0856_Bangalore 'BOSCO' Director receives award today.

Shortcut

Shortcut