Since 1991, Don Bosco Manacaud, Trivandrum has been reaching out to children and youth on the street through various services: CHILDLINE services, including an exclusive Railway CHILDLINE to protect children at railway stations, and two rehabilitation centers offering education and skilling. Their presence expanded to local slums with supplementary education classes to prevent further marginalization among children, promote skilling and self-reliance among youth and women, and related advocacy, research, and documentation.

BREADS has supported Don Bosco Manacaud's rescue and rehabilitation interventions, community health, skill training for youth and women empowerment, slum development, migrant services (KISMAT), and addiction prevention (DREAM) programmes since 2001. To extend these interventions and impact more people in need, BREADS, with the generous support of JuWe Switzerland, envisaged a new DB Veedu hub to promote development activities and skilling programmes in Thiruvananthapuram, to significantly extend the existing interventions of Don Bosco to more areas in the city as well as the state of Kerala.

As a coordinating center of social work for the state of Kerala, the center will facilitate all the networking programmes as a social service center, DB Veedu, to empower children, youth, and women through various initiatives, including:

– Vocational skilling programmes in various sectors, benefitting the underprivileged youth from slums and migrant youth and coordinating their job placement.
– A counseling center offering counseling services for vulnerable children and youth.
– A migrant help desk to support the large population of migrants, especially the youth.

BREADS greatly appreciates JuWe's partnership and the dedicated involvement of the local Don Bosco community in making the center a reality. In partnership with the local Don Bosco community, BREADS looks forward to expanding services that will positively impact thousands of children and youth in need in Kerala.

Fr. George PS, Executive Director,
BREADS Bangalore

Source: Don Bosco South Asia

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