Sbt Ann Rep 2013
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=Sponsor a child @ Rs.34,000 per annum =Make an individual How you can help Annual Report donation 25SBT 2012-13 Salaam Baalak Trust = Sponsor medical aid 1988- 2013 for a child with Give donations in kind tuberculosis @ Rs = 1000 per month Clothes (We require 7500 sets of clothes each year for the age group 3 - 18) =Fund for our =Blankets centralised kitchen =Dry rations, rice, wheat, sugar, lentils, cereals, etc =Toys, games & books =Computers =Medicines =A mobile medical van Volunteer as =Counsellor Provide =Computer Trainer Job Placement =Doctor Our children have been successful as =English Teacher computer software designers, photographers, actors, city guides and tailors; in factories, restaurants and hotels - their only limitation is the opportunities offered to them. 2nd Floor, DDA, Community Centre D e Chandiwali Gali, Paharganj s i g n : New Delhi - 110055 P i c t u Phone: 91-11-23584164, 23589305 r e S t Website: www.salaambaalaktrust.com r e e Email: [email protected] t Contents Touching 25 years of SBT 02 Genesis & Development 03 Overview of the year 2011-2012 04 Statistical Achievements in 2011-2012 06 Contact point 08 Childline 11 Full-Care Residential Centres 12 Apna Ghar: a drop in point to catch on dreams Aasra: a safe haven (shelter home under JJ Act 2000) DMRC Children's Home: embracing a new life Arushi: transforming lives Rose Home: A garden of roses (girl's children home under J.J. Act) Programmes 17 City Walk Education Program Health Program Mental Health Program led by former Life Skills Education Program Volunteer Program street children City Walk Program Performing Arts Program now SBT Guides Sports Program Job Placement & Rehabilitation Program Led by former street children now, SBT City Walk was inaugurated in 2005, the inspiration Collaborative Projects 23 and dedication of a volunteer working with the Plan- India support for Girl child projects older boys at Aasra shelter. Projects funded by Save The Children-India The walk, with one of the street boys as guide Mobile School gives tourists and Indians a glimpse into the life Unfolding a few stories 24 of street kids. Conducted in and around the New Delhi Railway Station, the walk takes visitors not Financials 28 only through the ‘landmark’ spaces where street List of Donors 47 kids live after running away from home but it also showcases the transformation, confidence, and communication skills the guides have gained. Nearly a hundred bookings for the two-hour tour are made every month, and tours are Photo Credits: conducted daily. Vicky Roy, Sanjay Kumar, Laxmi Thapa, Rasil Khan, Anish All the photographers are present/former children of Salaam Baalak Trust Book Your Place on the walk Through the Walk, SBT receives several donations Contact: 9873130383, 9910099348 both in cash and materials and it presently Design: Website: www.salaambaalaktrust.com contributes about 8% to SBT's annual budget. Picture Street Touching 25 years of SBT How many times have we looked away when a School, Sonawar. Its like the proverbial diamond little child has come begging on our car windows? buried in grime of poverty, tarnished by the acid of Yet at times we have looked out and seen them mistrust and prejudice, being cut to perfection. laugh out loud or do a spontaneous jig! These Theatre, dance, sports or academic study, our kids children are incredibly resilient. We can see it in excel in it all. If there is a magic in our work, it lies their shining eyes and the very fact that they in the fact that the most basic of rights for children survive on the roads that we are afraid to let our 18 – a safe place to sleep, a kind word at lunch – can Genesis & Development year olds step onto. transform injured souls into soaring lives. Its their trade mark…..the bright impish Mission These children look at their life and say "This isn't Our work has expanded well beyond our early smile…..this smile says ' you cannot break my SBT aims to provide a sensitive and caring good enough; I deserve better". On an estimated plans, staggeringly we reached out to 5866 spirit'…. Life may have served them the rawest environment to street & working children and average 51,000 of children reach Delhi annually – children this year. deal….. they have nothing that you and me possess other children on the margins of society. It they are running away from poverty, a drunken – no family to claim them, no teacher to mentor And yet, we have only scratched the surface. Millions seeks to dissolve the barriers that rob children father, a cruel step mother or just because they think them, no space to call home, no security from of dreams need our help to stay aloft. Be with us. of the opportunity to realize their rights. life would be better in the bright lights. These are the slitherings of crime and drugs, no hot healthy children we work with – help nurture their dreams, Gagan Singh meals, no one to bandage the oozing wound….. This 25 year young organization has already make them realize that their fate can be crafted by Geetan Batra Tejpal living on and of the streets, they are India's provided support to more than 50,000 children their own hearts and hands and a firm resolve. tomorrow fighting a moment to moment struggle Praveen Nair from all over the country and abroad. On an to survive. And these children survive with a Some of their lives turn out like happy lingering average, SBT's team reaches and protects over Sanjoy K. Roy smile…… with a resilient spirit! dreams – a boy from the railway tracks selected to 5,000 children annually. While a large chunk of spend 6 months photographing the reconstruction Trustees, Salaam Baalak Trust In 1988, Mira Nair's film Salaam Bombay rendered children are re-united successfully with their of New York's World Trade Center, another 2 a raw depiction of the vulnerabilities of living on families, SBT becomes family for young lives who winning scholarships to complete engineering the streets….. It struck a chord in the hearts of have no one to return to. Though a family can never courses, 2 boys and 2 girls studying at Lawrence compassionate citizens, who identified the mine of be replaced, a child friendly environment, access to potential in India's street children. This small group basic child rights, and mentorship of staff at SBT lost no time to create a space in the form of a Trust provides an unique support system for the children. where young street boys and girls could feel secure As a result, children from SBT are empowered young and could breathe hope. Keeping in tandem with citizens with their heart in the right place. the nature of the children, the name 'Salaam Children who have flown from the SBT nest have Baalak Trust' which literally translates into salute gone on to establish meaningful lives for the child seemed befitting. themselves. Majority is married, and can afford to send their children to good schools. Professionally, For the past 25 years, Delhi-based Salaam Baalak they have carved a niche for themselves, be it the Trust (SBT) has been dedicated to the care and performing arts such as puppeteers, dance and protection of street children, regardless of caste, theatre or the creative genre such as film making color, creed or religion by living or working in and and photography or the corporate world where they around railway station, at crowded bus stops, are absorbed into companies such as Matrix, Pizza slums, congested business and tourist areas. From Hut, JLL, Teamwork Productions, DS Constructions 3 staff and 25 children on a balcony of Ground (Toll Plaza), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, VLCC, and Reserve Police at the New Delhi Railway station, Devyani Hospitality Group. SBT has now grown to over 150 staff, providing support services in Delhi & NCR region. SBT lAasra –Shelter home for Boys currently functions through 13 Contact Points/ Day lApna Ghar- Open shelter for Boys Care Centers and 5 Shelter Homes, which provide lDMRC Children Home- Long stay shelter a holistic child development package. SBT also home for Boys manages 1098- emergency Child helpline is a toll lArushi- Long stay shelter home for Girls free number to reach out to children in distress at lRose Home- Long stay shelter home for Girls any point of time. 02 03 Overview of the year 2012-2013 As the number of children on the streets increases Academics and extra-curricular: with each passing year, SBT braces itself to rise to the occasion every time. Our mission is simple…to lTwo more children got selected for admission be there to wipe a tear, plant a dream, and in Lawrence School, Sanawar. Now total four empower to transform bitter reality. With this in children (two boys and two girls) are studying mind, this year, we touched 5866 young lives as we there. increased our reach at the community level, lA child staying in DMRC Children Home scored innovated on care plans at the shelter homes, and 96% marks in Class XI. widened the scope of vocations. And as we look lThree boys cleared the entrance test of ITI. Two back, all the hard work has paid off! opted for electronics and one boy opted for This year we reached out to two new communities mechanical. through Contact Points (day care centers). A centre lFive children won prizes in the essay writing at Kailash Nagar and Tulsi Nagar each started this competition at parliament's book corner. year with emphasis on education and nutrition.