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coimbatore don bosco anbu illam social service society Key Issues and Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements

Operational Districts: Coimbatore

Operational States: TAMIL NADU

AchieveMents: Don Bosco Anbu Illam, a non-governmental organization working for the Rehabilitation of street and working children in Coimbatore since 1991, is celebrating its Silver Jubilee Year, on 8th December 2016. From a humble beginning of providing night shelter to rag pickers in the city in 1991, Don Bosco Anbu Illam expanded its services of Non Formal Education to street children; Skill training and Employment for youth, in tie up with Coimbatore Corporation, personality development programs for young at risk, a Street contact project following a survey in 1995 where 25000 children were found to be abandoned on the streets; Child Line 1098 – 24 hour emergency toll-free helpline entrusted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 1999 for rescuing children in distress, Contact centre established at Ukkadam bus stand in 2000, Formation of Caring Community Groups of auto drivers, vendors, coach cleaners in 2004, Child line booth at the Railway Station in 2009, the Reception unit of Child Welfare Committee and Open shelter projects in 2010, Child Line Contact Centre at Pollachi in 2015 are the major milestones of Don Bosco Anbu Illam. In the last 25 years, the presence of Don Bosco Anbu Illam in Coimbatore has created a lasting impact and a paradigm shift in the concept of street children. Before there were children of the streets (the homeless who lived on the streets). Now we find only children on the streets (Run away children who come to the streets for work and temporary stay). ‘Don Bosco Anbu Illam’ which means Don Bosco’s Home of Love started in the year 1991 in Coimbatore district, to work for the Rehabilitation of street and working children. The children in our centres are categorized as children ‘in need of care and protection’. They are Runaway children, Street children, Migrant children, Trafficked children, Child labourers, Begging children, Missing children, Special children, victims of physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse, Abandoned children, Prisoner’s children, Substance abusing Children, Orphans, Semi orphans, HIV affected children; rescued through sources viz. ChildLine 1098, Street presence project, Police, Railway Police, Anti Human Trafficking Unit, National Child Labour Project, public or parent themselves who approach seeking shelter help. Those children who do not have an ostensible family support are admitted to our home under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 till suitable means of rehabilitation is found for the child, or till the child attains the age of eighteen years, as prescribed by the Child Welfare Committee, where they are produced after being rescued. Don Bosco Anbu Illam is also a Collaborative agency with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt of India for running the ChildLine project since 1999, Open Shelter and CWC Reception Unit since 2010 in the city.