We are in North Eastern India, almost at the border with Bangladesh. Here, the Don Bosco Institute of Employment Research, known as the DBSERI, has operated since 1978. This institute, initially a straightforward offshoot of the Don Bosco technical school in Liluah in the district of Howrah, has now become a genuine institution in its own right. The head office is in Mirpara in the outskirts of Calcutta and its two-year training courses are currently being followed by over 550 youngsters. The most notable feature of the institute, which offers a varied array of courses for entering the working world, undoubtedly lies in the impact that it has had on the entire surrounding area from an economic and social perspective. The commitment of many youngsters to training and earning qualifications has led to the creation of over 100 micro businesses, which are today able to employ the youngsters that leave the institute and incentivise and support the training work. The DBSERI has succeeded in implementing a virtuous mechanism that expands across the area and improves the quality of the lives of underprivileged youngsters and families. In complete respect for the Salesian spirit, one the institute’s greatest virtues is the quality of the training it provides which, far from focusing solely on technical education, aims at the education of the individual, the promotion of humanity and the respect for values and the inalienable rights of each and every human being. The protagonists of this renaissance are not wealthy and expert business professionals with vast sums of capital to invest, but rather those at the "bottom of the ladder": street children, women that have been left alone, the pariahs of Indian society. They are the most vulnerable elements of Indian society. The success of this experiment has not escaped the governing authorities, who have declared the DBSERI to be a model institution for assisting at-risk youngsters and opened the projects up to other governing bodies and NGOs, appointing Institute Director Father Mathew Thaiparampil as expert in professional training. The institute is currently developing 15 new micro businesses and training youngsters to ensure that these projects take off and develop independently. The importance of providing training that offers employment prospects, a realisation dating back over 30 years, remains extremely pressing, perhaps even more so than it did then: World Bank statistics show that 80% of children in India walk away from school and head towards a life of living on their wits, devoid of a real understanding of values. Even in such a risk-filled context, the Don Bosco preventative system underlines its worth.