The Fourth "Central American School of leaders for the Past Pupils of Don Bosco" took place from 23 to 27 March at the Salesian institute of the city of Granada, Nicaragua. The four Schools of leaders all over the world - American Southern Cone, Central America, Europe and Asia - have as their main purpose to train future generations that will guide the Centenary World Confederation of Past Pupils of Don Bosco.
The event was organized by Fresia Méndez, Councillor for Young Past Pupils of America, and Maria de los Ángeles Martínez, Coordinator of the Young Past Pupils of El Salvador. Among those present were the Salesians Fr Ángel Prado Mendoza, Vice-Provincial of Central America and Delegate for the Salesian Family, and Fr José Pastor Ramírez, World Delegate for the Past Pupils.
"The Salesian past pupil” - said Don Prado – “Cannot be conceived as a solitary being, but is called rather to be a leader within the Association of the Past Pupils, in the Salesian Family and in the Church".
For their part, the young leaders are committed to creating a project spread on social networks, which aims to attract new members to the school and to make known the work of the association. They also formed the team responsible for the organization of the next meeting of the "School of Central American leaders for the Past Pupils of Don Bosco", to be held in Panama 28 to 30 April 2017.
"We are called” - said Fr José Pastor, paraphrasing Gandhi – “to become the change we want to create." And he added, "The good leader is not one that does the work of ten, but one who gets ten people to work.”
