Bal Asha Trust

The Trust runs a children’s home to provide shelter and protection to children found in abandoned conditions in toilets, railway stations, religious places, hospitals and dustbins by the police and given up by their parents due to social reasons. The home has its own qualified doctors who take care of each child’s medical needs, it provides healthy meals cooked in its own kitchens.

It encourages children to watch movies, participate in picnics, takes them on visits to museums and engages them in celebrating festivals. It also attempts to trace and reunite children with their parents, otherwise, they are put up for adoption with appropriate legal procedures.

The Trust has received requisite legal permits and licenses from the Government to put up children for adoption. It has a transparent process in place, to find suitable families who are ready to bring up and take care of the children. In case the Trust is unable to find foster parents in India, it also looks for suitable foster parents in other countries and facilitates adoption procedures.

To enable each child’s right to basic education, the Trust sponsors the education of underprivileged children through individual donors. The donor is informed of the child’s details and it takes care of the full cycle of studies, educational materials, uniforms and related expenses. Performance reports are regularly shared with the sponsors and annual get-togethers are held to enable interaction between the donors and the children they have sponsored.

The Trust has a dedicated team of in-house professionals who are equipped to provide help to children suffering from learning disabilities and developmental delays. Its child development centre caters to paediatric development, assessments for high-risk newborns, follow-up neuron development therapy, early intervention centre, IQ tests and assessments, autism intervention services, remedial education in adolescence and relevant guidance and counselling.

In partnership with the non-governmental organisation ‘The Breakfast Revolution’(TBR), this programme provides nutritious snacks to children. These snacks are manufactured at plants certified by the FSSAI and each child is monitored for health parameters regularly to understand their individual needs in nutrition.