We invite individuals, organizations, agencies and government departments to share our dream and be the agents of change and transformation.

Where you live, and however much you are able to give, the University and the Don Bosco University Development Offices exist to help you channel your support to make a difference. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for further advice: you support matters.

Infrastructure Support: Don Bosco University – Azara has established the infrastructure as given on the University Foundation page. Academic Blocks, Hostels, Staff Quarters, Food Courts, Laboratories, Sports facilities, Plantations, Fresh Water Lakes, etc. Much has been accomplished while much lies ahead. In the coming months and years, we are planning to build more Academic Blocks, Hostels, Staff Quarters, Laboratories, Astro Physics Observatory, Roads etc. There is no amount too small in helping us realise our dream of establishing one of the finest universities of the world.

Scholarship Support: Assam Don Bosco University offers Tuition Fee Waiver schemes and Scholarship Schemes to encourage meritorious students to avail of the excellent academic ambience of the University as well as to ensure equitable access to higher education for economically weaker sections fo society and persons with disability/ies. Anyone who is interested in making a difference in someone’s life by supporting them to achieve their dreams can be a part of this programme.

• One student for one Semester – 60,000 INR
• One student for one Year – 1,20,000 INR
• One student for one full course – 3,60,000

One can also choose to support on a monthly basis:

• 500 per month
• 1000 per month
• 15000 per month

Community Engagement Support: The University has various social commitment and community engagement programmes which run throughout the year. These include conducting free evening classes for over 200 students from the neighbouring villages, installing pure drinking water system in the villages, adopting villages for Participatory community development, organizing basic computer literacy workshops local women, training local u employed youth by various Engineering Departments, providing free counselling through Community Counselling Centre, Re-innovating Aganwadis and Primary schools in the villages etc. Any amount can be contributed for supporting our social intervention through these programmes.

Green Campus Support: The University is creating and sustaining an eco-friendly campus with clear-cut goals and priorities in climate action, management of water resources, energy resources and consumption, preservation of flora and fauna, conservation of eco-system and wildlife and productive use of land.
In our endeavour to address rural poverty reduction and conservation of health ecosystems. Assam Don Bosco University has embarked on a plantation drive spread over 190 acres of its campus at Sonapur, Kamrup district, Assam. The variegated cropping of tea, coconut, rubber, cocoa, cashew, ginger and turmeric will be established as livelihood projects withing the scope of demonstration farms, and will nurture the setting up of farmers’ Cooperative in the 42 villages in the vicinity of the University campus. Any amount can be contributed for supporting our green campus mission.

For Donors from India: All donations will be acknowledged and tax exemption certificates under sections 80 (G), 10 (23C) and 35(A)(C) of the Income Tax Act will be given to all donors to Don Bosco Society/Don Bosco University. We are in a position to offer 100% tax exemption certificates to potential donors from India. Donations are to be made in favour of ‘Don Bosco University / Don Bosco Society’ {The Secretary, Don Bosco Society, Airport Road – Azara, Guwahati, Assam – 781017 (Phone: +91 9435544994, Email: mavely@dbuniversity.ac.in) Web: www.dbuniversity.ac.in / www.dbsazara.in}. Kindly indicate that the donations are for ‘Don Bosco University Project – Assam, India’.

For Donors from Europe: The donations for the University will get the full benefits available under European laws if the donations are routed through ‘Don Bosco Nel Mondo Foundation’ {The Director, Fondazione Don Bosco Nel Mondo, Via della Pisana, 1111 - 00163 ROMA, (Phone: +39 06 65612663 Email: donbosconelmondo@sdb.org), Web: www.donbosconelmondo.org}. Kindly indicate clearly that the donation is for ‘Don Bosco University Project – Assam, India’.

For Donors from USA: The donations for the University will get the full benefits available under United States laws if the donations are routed through ‘Salesian Missions’ { Fr Mark Hyde SDB, Salesian Missions Procure, 2 Lefevre Lane. P.O. Box 2640, New Rochelle, NY 10802 -0030, USA (Phone: +1 915-6338344, Email: info@salesianmissions.org), Web: www.salesianmissions.org). Kindly indicate clearly that the donation is for ‘Don Bosco University Project – Assam, India}. Kindly indicate clearly that the donation is for ‘Don Bosco University Project – Assam, India’.

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Italy (Rome): Led by His Eminence, Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco, the President, the Conference adopted this project, and became our first and most enthusiastic partner enabling us to procure the land for the university. Msgr Pierluigi Vacchelli and his successor as the President of ‘CEI Committee for Charitable Works,’ Msgr Giovanni Battista Gandolfo, were instrumental in piloting the process. We stand indebted to them, and look forward to their continued support.

Salesians of Don Bosco Headquarters (Rome): Fr Pascual Villanueva Chavez (Rector Major) and his Council not only saw merit in this project and approved it, but also became our constant guides in the execution of this project – questioning, challenging, prodding, correcting, encouraging – playing a multi-faceted role in addition to supporting the Project with the necessary funds at crucial moments through the Salesian Procure at Madrid, Spain (Director – Fr Augustin Pacheco), and Salesian Missions New Rochelle, USA (Director – Fr Mark Hyde).

Leopold Bachmann Foundation (Zurich): Leopold Bachmann Stiftung has evinced keen interest in the Don Bosco University Project with a combination of grants and soft loans with an eye to the eventual self-sustainability of the project. They continue to be engaged with us with support for areas involving ecological concerns, productive use of the university land and starting of entrepreneurial projects. Mr Leopold Bachmann, Dr Regina Bachmann and Dr Albert Kesseli stand tall on our ‘Honour List’. In our engagement with Leopold Bachmann Foundation we have been professionally and collegially assisted by our sister organizations: Don Bosco Juhila at Beromunster, Switzerland (Rector – Fr Toni Rogger, and CEO – Patrick Mueller) and Jugend Eine Welt at Vienna, Austria (CEO – Mr Reinhard Heiserer).

Dr Ercole Lucchini (Varese): He came, he saw, he got thoroughly involved. Generously sharing his resources and ideas, Dr Lucchini has accepted to be a Member of the Board of Management to ensure that the University is professionally managed and that the University will exploit to the maximum the tea estate and the plantations it owns, and start locally relevant courses in agro industries and food processing technology.

Prof Luigi Salvaneschi & Dr Leonore M Rickels – Salvaneschi (Florida): A past pupil of Don Bosco institutions, President of Blockbuster, Vice President of McDonald’s, Board Member of Barry University... Prof Salvaneschi and his wife Dr Leonore M Rickels have been major benefactors of the University Project through the instrumentality of Salesian Missions at New Rochelle, USA (Director – Fr Mark Hyde).

Porticus Foundation (Amsterdam): The Centre for On-Line and Distance Education is what has caught the attention of the Porticus Foundation and its Director for Higher Education, Prof Richard Brosse, and its Director for Asia operations, Mr Benny Baccani. The University is set on a course to be ‘the institution of choice’ for open, distance and online education. We intend to get there by providing exceptional service to our learners. In this endeavour Porticus Foundation is our partner and guide in technology upgradation and content delivery. Credit for the liaison work with the Foundation goes to Don Bosco Mission at Bonn, Germany (Director – Bro Jean Paul Muller, and Project Heads – Ms Silvia Cromm & Ms Margret Vogt).

The Don Bosco (Salesian) Headquarters (Rome):

• Fr Pascual Villanueva Chavez SDB (Rector Major)
• Fr Adriano Bregolin SDB (Vicar General)
• Fr Fabio Attard SDB (General Councillor – Youth Apostolate)
• Fr Francesco Cereda SDB (General Councillor – Formation)
• Fr Klement Vaclav SDB (General Councillor - Missions)
• Fr Maria Arokiam Kanaga SDB (General Councillor – South Asia)
• Br Jean Paul MullerSDB (Economer General)
• Fr Francis Alencherry SDB (Former General Councillor - Missions)
• Fr Franco Fontana (Director, VIS International)
• Fr Ferdinando Colombo SDB (Former Director, VIS International)
• Br Mario Olmos SDB (Secretary General, IUS International)
• Fr Carlos Garulo SDB (Former Secretary General, IUS International)

The Vatican Secretariat

• Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB (Secretary of State, Vatican City)
• Cardinal Ivan Dias (Secretary, Propaganda Fide)
• Archbishop Salvatore Pennachio (Vatican Ambassador to India, New Delhi)

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Italy (CEI)

• Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Italy)
• Msgr Giovanni Battista Gandolfo (President, CEI Committee for Charitable Works)
• Msgr Pierluigi Vacchelli (Former President, CEI Committee for Charitable Works)

The Government of Assam, India

• Mr Tarun Chandra Gogoi (Chief Minister)
• Mr Gautam Bora (Former Minister for Education)
• Dr Himanta Biswa Sharma (Minister for Health)
• Mr Bhumidhar Barman (Former Minister for Revenue)
• Mr Bharat Chandra Narah (Former Minister for Parliamentary Affairs)
• Mrs Promila Rani Brahma (Former Minister for Tribal Welfare)
• Mr Akon Bora (Minister for Social Welfare)
• Mr P C Sarma IAS (Former Chief Secretary)
• Mr C K Das IAS (Former Advisor to Chief Minister)
• Mr H M Cairae IAS (Former Principal Secretary for Education)
• Mr V K Pipersenia IAS (Principal Secretary for Revenue)
• Mr H S Das IAS (Principal Secretary for Finance)
• Mr S C Das IAS (Former Principal Secretary for Home Affairs)
• Mr Alok Kumar IAS (Former Secretary for Education)

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI)

• Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil (Chairman, Education Commission)
• Archbishop Dominic Jala (Vice Chairman, Education Commission)
• Fr Kuriala Chittathukulam SDB (Executive Secretary, Education Commission)

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of North-East India

• Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil (President)
• Bishop John Thomas (Secretary)

The Salesian Procures worldwide

• Br Gerard Schoorl (Missie Pocuur, Soest, Netherlands)
• Br Jean-Paul Muller SDB (Don Bosco Mission, Bonn, Germany)
• Fr Augustin Pacheco SDB (Procure de Misiones Salesianas, Madrid, Spain)
• Fr George Menamparambil (BoscoNet, New Delhi, India)
• Fr Mark Hyde SDB (Salesian Missions Procure, New Rochelle, USA)
• Fr Pier Luigi Zuffetti SDB (Procura Missioni Don Bosco, Turin, Italy)
• Fr Toni Rogger SDB (Don Bosco JUHILA, Beromunster, Switzerland)
• Mr Reinhard Heiserer (Jugend Eine Welt, Vienna, Austria)

Outstanding Sponsors / Foundations

• Archdiocese of Salzburg (Austria)
• Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Italy (CEI, Italy)
• Don Bosco Nel Mondo Foundation Onlus (Rome, Italy)
• Dr Ercole Lucchini (A-27 S.p.A., Italy)
• Dr Giovanni Arvedi (Finarvedi S.p.A., Italy)
• Prof Luigi Salvaneschi (Miami Shores, Florida)
• Rector Major & General Council (Salesians of Don Bosco, Italy)
• Salesian Procures (Madrid, Bonn, Turin, New Rochelle, Soest, Beromunster)
• Salesian Province of Guwahati, Assam (India)
• Salesian Province of Hong Kong (China)
• Stichting Porticus (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Stiftung Bachmann (Luzern, Switzerland)
• Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS, Italy)

The Salesian Province of Guwahati

• Fr Joseph Almeida SDB (Provincial Superior)
• Fr Sebastian Karotemprel SDB (Joint Coordinator, Don Bosco University Project)

The Don Bosco Institutions in India, especially

• Bosco Reachout, Guwahati
• Catholic Church, Amsoi
• Catholic Church, Dimakuchi
• Catholic Church, Gojapara
• Catholic Church, Khleriat
• Catholic Church, Mawlai
• Catholic Church, Nongpoh
• Catholic Church, Nongstoin
• Catholic Church, Nongthymmai
• Catholic Church, Rambrai
• Catholic Church, Shallang
• Catholic Church, Sojong
• Catholic Church, Sonapahar
• Catholic Church, Tangla
• Catholic Church, Umswai
• Don Bosco College, Tura
• Don Bosco School, Boko
• Don Bosco School, Haflong
• Don Bosco School, Lawngtlai
• Don Bosco School, Saiha
• Don Bosco School, Seling
• Don Bosco School, Silchar
• Don Bosco Technical School, Shillong
• Sacred Heart College, Shillong
• Salesian Training Centre, Shillong
• Savio Juniorate, Shillong
• St Anthony’s College, Shillong
• St Anthony’s Higher Secondary School, Shillong