Bosco Boys Home

On 25 th August, 2019 Mumbai Annual Half Marathon was planned by IDBI Federal Life Insurance at BKC. The Brand ambassador for this important occasion was Indian Legend and Cricketer ‘Master Blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.’ 26 boys from Bosco Boys home accompanied by Romero Dsouza and Datta Gade participated in this Marathon. Bosco boys got opportunity to showcase their talents on this bigger platform and they were happy to be part of this sporting event. The marathon is an event where people from all walks of life participate including Bollywood celebrities, sports personalities, business tycoons and amateur athletes. The purpose of conducting this event was to promote running in the city and encourage a fit and healthy lifestyle.  Minimum age for this event for this event was 18 age. The event was categories were: Timed:   21 K, 10 K, 5 K and fun Run for new runners. This was a 4 th edition of Mumbai Half Marathon. Mumbai boasted the highest number of full...

The Management and the Staff of Bosco Boys Home and Technical Institute invited the government licence agency of Ronak Fire Industries, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified company to conduct an awareness programme for the students and boys regarding the use of fire extinguisher on 17 August, 2019 at 10am. Considering present scenario in Metro politician city of Mumbai, Fire policy has not been taken as a serious issue. The institute of Bosco Boys are more focused in empowering children and youth at vulnerable situation. In our academic study we have added a subject and practical session on safety and prevention of fire. Mr. Bruno D’Mello a resource person gave an orientation with a live demonstration and trained the students and boys regarding the use of fire extinguisher. The session was divided into six demo programmes each   for Mechanical section , Two wheeler, Four wheeler, Electrican, Air Condition Department, Hotel Management and Social sector children. For the training ...

*Dance India Dance at Bosco Boys' Home* 8th August, 2019. Thursday.  A team from *Dance India Dance* (DID) of ZeeTV visited Bosco Boys' Home to interact with the kids. The programme was organised by the N.G.O U&I. The session started with the crew members and participants introducing themselves to the kids. Then had a dance act by the choreographer Mukund, whose performance was thoroughly enjoyed by all the kids.  The next performance was by the 10 year old DID partcipant Richika, whose energetic dance act was truly splendid.  After loud and enthusiastic cheers by the kids asking the two of them to perform together, they had a small performance and then introduced their team in DID, East Tigers. Both the performances were quite entertaining and the kids had a great time.  After this, Mukul and Richika distributed jerseys of East Tigers to all the kids and clicked several pictures with them.  After this, the kids were also ...

On the 21 st of July, 2019 the engineering students from Dwarkadas Jivanlal Sanghvi College of Engineering, Vile Parle visited Bosco Boys Home, (BBH), Borivali as part of their National Service Scheme (NSS) programme under their NSS Program Officers Prof. Rahul Taware and Prof. Vyenkatesh Bagal. In all 60 students came to BBH and took part actively in animating the 70 children of BBH. Keeping in mind the core values of spreading love and joy. The NSS unit of the college organises an orphanage visit every year. Rajas Joshi, one of the volunteer shared, “we feel that no child should be deprived of unconditional love. As part of this motto we decided to spend these quality time with the children of BBH and share with them some precious moments of smiles and laughter.” In animating the boys, the volunteers performed a skit highlighting the virtue of true friendship followed by a creative activity where the volunteers dressed up the children as superheroes. Through which they...

“Thank you for being the reason I smile” was theme for the thanksgiving programme for Fr. Provincial Godfrey D’Souza sdb organized by the children of Bosco Boys Home, (BBH), Borivali on 20 th July, 2019. As the term of Fr. Godfrey as the Provincial of Mumbai Province is coming to its culmination, the Management, Staff and the children of BBH saw it fitting to give him a sweet and entertaining good-bye by thanking him for the special predilection he had for BBH.              The children welcomed Fr. Provincial with a Hindi welcome song “Swagatham Dear Father Swagatham”. The Technical boarders sang the song “Never Alone” by Lady Antebellum for Fr. Provincial by letting him know that they are always praying for him and his apostolate. The CWC boys presented a fusion dance to the tune of songs from the movies Bharat and Kalank. In between, the children from CWC, Post 10, Technical and Working sector came forward and...

MUMBAI, JULY 18, 2019:  The Hotel Management department of Bosco Boys Home and Technical Institute,(BBHTI) Borivli organised a  lunch for all their parents to show to them the skills they acquired through the training of the well qualified staff of BBHTI. In all 30 students from batch number 38, joined forces in preparing the special treat for their parents lunch under the guidance of cookery teacher, Sonali Cheulkar and food and beverages service lecturer, Deepak Lala and the bakery teacher Rowena Ferreira. The lunch was divided into two courses namely main course and the desert. This programme was one of a kind, suggested by Fr. Corlis Gonsalves sdb, the Director of the Institute. In this programme the students are encouraged to apply all the theoretical and practical knowledge which they acquired during the course, and without the help of the Instructors on their own prepare a lunch for their parents. The planning for this began well in advance and the stu...

The Holy Spirit interactive, (HSI) Group belonging to IC Church, Borivali visited the Borivli-based Bosco Boys Home (BBH) orphanage on July 16 . The purpose of the visit was to know about the life of the orphan children who lived in the home and how they were brought up with love and guided towards the right path by the Salesians living with them. Holy Spirit Interactive (HSI) is a lay apostolate recognized as an Association of Faith and Outreach by Bishop Paul Hinder of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia and supported by dozens of other Bishops around the world. Founded in January 2004 by  Aneel Aranha , it is dedicated to strengthening the faith of Christians and spreading the Word of God around the world. Through its various ministries and activities, HSI reaches several million people each year. This year the Borivali branch of HSI group members began their visit ay BBH by dividing their time spent with the boys in two half. The first half was used to interact...