The Don Bosco Technical Institute for Boys in Lahore, Pakistan, is a trade school, educating mainly Christian but some Muslim youths, ranging in age from 15 to 22.
Spread over an area the equivalent of three football fields, the center offers technical skills to youths, most of whom dropped out of school.
[3] In 2012 the principal Father Miguel Angel Ruiz was awarded the Medal of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic by the King of Spain.
In a video report, the principal Father Ruiz described the institute as “ a beacon of hope” for young boys in Pakistan.
[5] The institute was temporarily closed on March 15, 2015, when a suicide bomber killed 17 and wounded 78, including two Salesian students, outside Christian churches in Lahore.