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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 1995 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 1995 - Rev. John visser, SDB John Visser, SDB, 62, from the Netherlands, arrived in Thailand as a missionary in 1957. His life's passion and dedication has been to work exclusively for the poor. To this end, he has been actively involved in working in vocational schools for poor and abandoned youth, so that they might gain an education and develop skills, in order to provide for themselves now and in the future. He has also been of great help in finding the financial resources necessary to initiate and operate these tuition-free, completely gratuitous, school. When in 1990 the Salesians were asked to assist the poor, orphaned and abandoned youth of Cambodia, it was Fr. John who was considered as the ideal person to create a Don Bosco Foundation in Cambodia. The choice proved to be correct, as he was instrumental in developing a vocational center for 200 young men, and by offering financial assistance providing many with food and basic education. His fruitful work has become a model for non-governmental organizations.
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