Rector – VOMATI – albeiror24@gmail
The Salesians of Don Bosco in Cambodia decided to develop a new technical school in 3 hectares of land located at the west side of Kep Peninsula in the southeast of Cambodia, a terrain that was bought by the Salesians in 1992 with the support of many benefactors, especially from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy and the support of Mr. Gerard van Hal and his Dutch company Hatrans. The terrain was alone between 1992 and 2000, when there was the opening of a small workshop of tailoring for girls. In 2005 there was the construction of the Don Rua Youth Center to welcome youth groups from other Cambodian provinces and the Salesian house. In 2010 the Salesians approved the transfer of administration of the terrain in Kep to Don Bosco Sihanoukville and the opening of a technical school and children fund.
In October 2011 Fr. Samnang Albeiro Rodas with 10 teachers and 40 students, arrived to the terrain in Kep Province to open the two first sections: Media Communication and Hospitality. Since then and thanks to the support of many benefactors, volunteers, Don Bosco past pupils, Salesians and the Carmelite sisters, many things has been made possible for the benefit of the Cambodian youth, especially from the region of Kep, Kampot and Takeo provinces, but welcoming youth from over Cambodia to have a technical training for two years, getting the TVET associate degree in agreement with the Royal Ministry of Labor.
The campus is also dedicated to the care and formation of children and young people for environment, being also a member of the Don Bosco Green Alliance. The gardens of Don Bosco Kep follow the project Green Campus Jungle Gardens in connection with the Kep National Park and the Kep Mangrove Forest. It is not only to train youth in media communication, electricity, secretariat and information technology, but to train them in the care and protection of the environment (Don Bosco Brother Sun), especially in this time of the climate change crisis.
Fr. Samnang Albeiro Rodas is a Salesian Catholic priest from Colombia, South America, proud of his native South American roots, one of the reasons for his attention to indigenous youth from Ratanakiri province, offering to them the possibility to study in Don Bosco, while including indigenous children in the Don Bosco Children Fund. He participates in Voices, a program promoted by Pope Francis to hear the voices of those who have been traditionally ignored or marginalized. Fr. Samnang is also a senior of the Boy Scouts movement, BA in social communication and journalism and MA in digital communication from the Bolivariana Pontifical University of Medellín, Colombia. He offered himself to the Salesian missions in 1999 upon the call of Fr. Juan Edmundo Vecchi, the 8th successor of Don Bosco, who invited young Salesians to the Millennium Salesian Expeditions in 2000. He created the first social communication section in Don Bosco Sihanoukville in 2007 with the support of Fr. John Visser and many benefactors and then he transferred the program to Don Bosco Kep when he opened the project in 2011.
