The Bosco Illam Hostel had celebrated the hostel day on 25th march 2024. The hostel day was held under the guidance of Fr. Rector. The main purpose of the hostel day is to bring together all the hostel boys, domestic staff, other faculty members and other who were part of the Bosco Illam hostel who lived and worked. The Hostel day celebrationbegan with the Holy Eucharist, celebrated by Fr. Lieo, the Hostel Warden and in charge of the hostel boys. The mass was solemnized and the other priests from the community have joined the mass as concelebrants.
Thereafter, all the hostel boys took part very vigorously in the party games organized by the brothers, and all of them had a good time and enjoyed a lot and also cherished that great exciting moment. Immediately after the party games, the prize and award distribution took place. Fr. Thomas and Br. Arun, have spoken about the importance of being in hostel and growing in all the levels possible to become more like the children of Don Bosco. There were different awards given to the hostel boys according to their performance in each level. There were about ten awards given to twenty boys based on their behavior, dress code, helping nature, taking care of the sick so on and so forth. At the same time, all the domestic staff were given small gifts by the hostel boys as great token of gratitude and appreciation for the service they have been rendering towards hostel boys in one way or the other.In conclusion, there was a video presentation based on the activities done in the hostel for this whole academic year 2023-24. At the end, the festive and solemn dinner was provided for all the hostel boys. All the boys felt very happy and the entire programmewas successful as originally planned.