Don Bosco Ashalayam

Don Bosco Ashalayam, Kolkata is an Indian NGO working for the rehabilitation of street and destitute children. Ashalayam provides assistance to all ch Read moreildren in need, regardless of religion, caste, or gender. Over 500 children reside in Ashalayam’s twenty three shelter homes and benefit from educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities. Through its street presence and various programmes in the slums and railway stations, Ashalayam also provides assistance to thousands of street children every year. Don Bosco Ashalayam, an NGO with over 35 years of experience, provides a comprehensive range of high-quality care services to children without parental care or those at risk of losing it. Beyond mere childcare, the organization ensures holistic child development. Through its Mission Education initiative, it has directly empowered over 155,000 children through education. VISION To create a child-friendly society that acknowledges and provides facilities for the optimal development of all its children, enabling them to become socially responsible citizens. MISSION Educate, Empower, and Promote children's basic rights, including survival, protection, participation, and development.

The vision of Don Bosco Ashalayam is to build a child-friendly society that offers facilities for all children's optimum development, while its mission is to educate, empower, and promote children's basic rights of survival, protection, participation, and development.

Don Bosco Ashalayam has assisted over 5,000 children in slums, streets, and railway stations, provided education and residential care to 700 children, helped 145 orphan children build houses, and placed over 250 young adults in jobs across different sectors from 2017 to 2022.