Don Bosco Snehalaya,THE THEME OF DBS IS “A SHELTER HOME FOR THE YOUNG AT RISK”. IT COMES INTO EXISTENCE ON 24th MAY 2001. THEIR MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO GIVE CHILDREN LIKE ORPHANS AND HOMELESS CHILDREN FOUND ON RAILWAY PLATFORMS AND AT STREET FOR SHELTER HOME AND EMPOWERMENT, HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT, STABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY.

2.  "Father and Teacher of Youth"
 Born 16 August 1815
 Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy
 Died 31 January 1888 (aged 72)

3.  THE THEME OF DBS IS “A SHELTER HOME
FOR THE YOUNG AT RISK”.
 IT COMES INTO EXISTENCE ON 24th MAY 2001.
THEIR MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO GIVE
CHILDREN LIKE ORPHANS AND HOMELESS
CHILDREN FOUND ON RAILWAY PLATFORMS
AND AT STREET FOR SHELTER HOME AND
EMPOWERMENT, HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT,
STABILITYAND RESPONSIBILTY.

4. HISTORY OF DBS:
Don Bosco Snehalaya, A Home of Love, came into existence on May 24, 2001. A
new beginning is always difficult. A big problem that had to be faced by DBS
was that of finding a suitable location for the Shelter Home. In the course of
five years Snehalaya shifted to ten different places until it finally settled in a
new and full-fledged Shelter Home at Vishwamitri almost in the center of
Baroda city. The basic objective of Snehalaya is to provide shelter to the young
living on the railway platforms and in the streets who are in need of care and
protection. Snehalaya provides food, clothes, medicines, recreational facilities,
counseling, job placement, contact with their kith or kin, training in some
income generating trades according to their capacities and limitations. They
are given opportunities to interact with the public, to express their
potentialities and talents. This helps them to develop their self-confidence and
the consciousness that they too can contribute something to the society.

5. Services Provided by DBS
Outreach of DBS:
It is necessary to be present on the streets, where such children spend a major part of
their life and time.
Drop-In Centers, located near the railway station, maintain a child friendly
environment.
Medicine Room: medication for the children when they are fever if the fever can be
cured under the medication of NGO otherwise they are taken to Hospital.
Library: To offer the books for the study and the skills development in the children.
Computer Lab: To provide the basic knowledge of computers and to provide them the
knowledge with the modernization age.

6. Services rendered in rehab center besides food clothing and shelter, educational,
recreational and spiritual needs are taken of.
Services rendered in after take care room is food , clothing, shelter capacity building
and life copying skills to youngsters from 18 – 21 years of age living.
OBSERVATION:
CHILDREN OF 6-14 YEARS WERE THERE IN THE SHELTER ROOM AND
WERE ARRANGED WITH NEW CLOTHES THEY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY
DBS.
THERE WERE SPECIAL THREE VANS FOR THE CHILDREN TO REACH THE
SCHOOL.
CHILDREN WERE VERY HAPPY TO LEAVE FOR THE SCHOOL. THEY WERE
PUNCTUAL ON THE ASPECTS OF TIME FOR LEAVING THE SCHOOL.
SPECIAL CARE WAS TAKEN OF THE CHILDREN BY THE DBS MEMBERS.

7. LEARNING:
HOW TO MANAGE THE CHILDREN FOR REHABILATION AND
COUNSELLING PURPOSE
TO PROTECT THE HOMELESS AND ORPHANED CHILDREN
TO MAKE THE CHILDREN STAY AND MAKE THEM INITIATIVE FOR
DEVELOPING THEMSELVES AS THE RESPONSIBLE PERSON IN THE
SOCIETY.
THAT’S THE WAY WE HAD UNDERSTOOD THE DBS (DON BOSCO
SNEHALAYA).

8. Taking children off the street, putting them on
their feet
You can make a difference in the life of poorest
of the poor children. DBS organization provide
short term and long term rehabilitation,
education, skill training and counseling services
for the children in need of care and protection.
Kindly join hands in our endeavor to create a
child friendly society.