Annual Report 2007-08 Salaam Baalak Trust ________________________________________________________________________ 2nd Floor, DDA Community Centre, Gali Chandiwali, Paharganj, New Delhi-110055 Tel: 91-23589305, 23584164 Email:
[email protected] Web:www.salaambaalaktrust.com Table of Contents Topic Page No. 1- Preface – ‘Children our trust’ 2 2- Genesis and Development 3 3- Overview and highlights of the year 4 4- Structural Components 6 Short term support system -- Contact points Immediate support system -- Childline Long term support system -- Shelter/children’s homes 5- Programme components 18 a) Education b) Health c) Mental health d) Life skills e) HIV/AIDS f) Performing arts g) Games and sports h) Vocational training i) Job placement j) Annual summer tour k) Celebrations l) Repatriation m) Volunteer n) City walk 6- Collaborative Projects 26 i- Samarth- HIV prevention, supported by USAID/FHI ii- Community Based Care & Support, supported by MAMTA Health Institute/Abbot iii- Salaam Award for Young People - Duke of Edinburgh Award International iv- Community Foundation for Children & Aging 7- Acknowledgements 28 8- List of donors 29 9- Financial statement 33 SALAAM BAALAK TRUST Children-our trust These children are special You only have to look at them to see it in their shining eyes. Listen to their stories, and you hear it in their incredible resilience. And consider this – how many children look at their life, say "This isn't good enough; I deserve better", and strike out for the city, the magnet of their dreams? Only one in a thousand. We are privileged to work with these children, to show them that dreams must be nurtured, that their fate can be crafted by their own hearts and hands, and that the crowded, sometimes threatening world makes way for those with a firm resolve.