Tools

 LDS charities donated about $7,000 worth of tools to the Dom Bosco trade school. The tools were for their automotive department. The head of the school father Johansson gave us a tour of the school. Cheryl is standing in between the mission president and his wife. On the right of the mission president is Father Johansen, Father Joseph and mr. Lee

The school has Departments of General construction, automotive and office administration. Their job placement rate is almost 100% which is amazing in Timor Leste where there are so few jobs available. This is our second project with the school. Last year we donated computers for the office administration building.
The donated tools were all spread out on tables. They were about 10 tables. The tools had to be purchased in Jakarta, Indonesia and sent over on a boat. They were able to get twice as many tools that way compared to purchasing them in Timor Leste.
 Picture of Cheryl and Mission president's wife, Sister MacKay, with the students who were conducting the ceremony.  The scarves over their shoulders are called Tais. We each received one in appreciation. The one Cheryl received had and embroidery of a cock fight on it, mine had some kind of cupids on it.
 Because this was a school holiday only those students that live on site were in attendance. These were the remarks by one of the students.

 After the opening remarks the students sang a song of appreciation.
Group photo.

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