Activities | Bosco Seva Kendra BOSCO SEVA KENDRA ( BSK )

BSK has some of the following activities for the socially backward, physically challenged children, youth and women of this society

Community Based Development Programmes for the eradication of poverty, long-term sustainable development, continuing education for children, school enrollment for working children and alternate livelihood skills training for empowerment of women and of communities.

Regular School enrollment of all Children to give priority to continuing education, School enrollment for dropouts and non-formal education to working children.

Eradication of Child labour, Bonded labour and Rehabilitation of street / working children and school dropouts.

Vocational training for Children / Youth. Training programmes for children, youth, social workers and staff.

Career Guidance and Job Placement for the socially disadvantaged.

Health care programmes for children and women; Lobbying and Liaison with the concerned Departments and Governments.

Formation and Organization of Women Self Help Groups; Micro Credit Financing; Free legal aid.

PEOPLE WE SERVE

The activities we take up help the most under-served.

Children

Youth

Women

Communities

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250 children provided temporary care and support at DBRC, Ramanthapur

Hundreds of children were rescued from exploitative situations in the infamous bangle industry of Old City, Hyderabad in a massive search and rescue operation carried out by the Department of Labor and the City Police. About 250 of these children were referred to the Don Bosco Rehabilitation Centre at Ramanthapur on 24th of January 2015 without any prior notice. The children, mainly from the st

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Year-end review for Children’s Parliament

Teachers and animators of the Tuition Centres and Children’s Parliament programs had a review meeting at the Don Bosco Provincial House on Saturday, 12 December 2015. After sessions on sharing, learning, planning, the team had a short pre-christmas celebration.

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DHISHA conducts recruitment drive for Dr.Reddy's Labs

Dhisha, Job Placement Cell conducted a recruitment drive on 1st of February, 2015 at Don Bosco School, Mothinagar. The drive was exclusively held for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories that had several different openings in different streams for all the youngsters who were unemployed and who were in need of jobs. Mr. Sathish and team from DRL interviewed the prospective candidates and Ivan Vazz &

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From Field Labour to Merchant on Wheels

N Sulochana is a resident of Nidubrolu Town near Vijayawada, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh.  She and her husband would work as farm labourers and manage their household of five members. Both of them have a keen interest to educate their 3 daughters. Sulochana first heard about thrift and credit in January, 2011 when members from Bosco Janani MACS conducted a meeting in the neighbori

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86 Students of R R Dist. all set to protect Human Rights

On 19th & 20th November, 2014, Human Rights Club Office bearers were given orientation and training on the concept, roles & responsibilities of the club. The two-day residential training program was held at BIRDY under the aegis of PARA with Mr.Ambedkar of BSK Co-ordinating the  event. 86 high-school students – including 49 girls and 37 boys – from government schools in

250 people DINE FOR A CAUSE – of educating the needy

Bosco Seva Kendra hosted a unique evening for its supporters – DINE FOR A CAUSE – a dinner to celebrate the joy of giving. Close to 250 individuals from different walks of life gathered at St.Francis College for Women on Saturday, 15 November, 2014. In a culmination of over a year of preparations, the fundraising event saw many people offering their support and collaboration. 

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WE CARE FOR EVERY CHILD!

Child Rights are Human Rights, and Dear Children, We care for you! These were the focus of a series of training programmes and publicity campaigns during the first week of November at Don Bosco Navajeevan, Hyderabad. These included the Hub level training for HLK-ChildMISS, Human Rights Education for government school teachers and the release of posters and T-Shirts for the Child Safety Net Campaig

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Don Bosco Navajeevan, Vijayawada in Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan

On the occasion of sesquicentennial birthday celebrations of the Father of the Nation,  Government of India launched a Programme  “Swachh Bharath” (Clean India). On 2nd October 2014, as part of this programme,  Vijayawada Railway Division D.R.M Mr. Pradeep started an initiative of cleaning the areas surrounding Vijayawada Railway Station. Vijayawada Member of P

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Human Rights Training for Teachers – Khammam

PARA’s ambitious project of establishing 1000 Human Right clubs in high schools of AP and Telangana states is making steady progress. Teachers of select districts are trained to be guides of the HR clubs and later the club office bearers are trained and clubs activated. Khammam is the first district in Telangana taken in the project. Other districts will follow. Mr. Ramana Murthy CWC memb

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Tuition Centres draw attention of locals

The tuition centre and Children’s Parliament in Budvel village is eliciting a lot of positive response from the local community.   While children, parents and teachers are happy with the scholastic progress, community members are highly impressed with the children’s overall performance, especially their involvement and initiative in the development of the community. To mak

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Training of 800 Police Trainees

Juvenile Justice Desk of Navajeevan Bosco Bhavan, Vijayawada organised awareness sessions for over 800 police trainees in the districts of Karimnagar and Warangal. On 23rd September, 2014,  two sessions was conducted for 130 trainees at District Training Centre, Karimnagar and  for 280 trainees at Police Training College, Karimnagar. On 24th September,  2014, a session was con

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Annual DBNJ – Hyderabad past pupils re-union

On 31st August 2014 around 45 past pupils of Don BoscoNavajeevan gathered at Don Bosco Rehabilitation premises for a day long get together and sharing. The occasion was made colourful with the presence of four Comedy Actors (Sai Baba, Bantu, Praveen Kumar and Ramesh) from Telugu feature film ‘Gabbarsingh’, Rev. Fr. Noel Maddhichetty SDB, SPCSA,Secretary and Mr. Ramesh Bojja, Andhra P

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Training cum Production unit in Warangal

Trainees to Tailors This year 2nd batch Advanced Skills Trainings for girls above 15 years was successfully completed. About 246 are trained under tailoring since the inception of trade on 15th Aug 2012. The trainees hail from various slum communities. These skills trainings are an integral part of BSK’s strategy to prevent child and early marriages. Courses like tailoring, beauty salo

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BPO center @ Sabbavaram, Visakhapatnam

The young and fledging Bosco Tech in Sabbavaram Mandal, Visakhapatnam, opened its doors to a new batch of Business Process outsourcing (BPO) students. This is the second batch of students at Bosco Tech, Devipuram, after the institute started its operations in the month of May 2014. The students were welcomed by the director of the institute, Fr. Thomas Thottiyil SDB. The Chief Guests for

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Expert inputs for Hospitality trainees at Sabbavaram

Students of hospitality course at Don Bosco Tech, Devipuram had a guest lecture by Mr. D. Srinivas Reddy from Indo American Technical College on 22 August, 2014. His session demystified some key subjects in Hotel Management ie., House-keeping, F & B Service, Front Office and F & B Production. Mr.Srinivas had an open session where he invited queries from the students and clarified the

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Sharing family responsibility by stitching clothes gives lot of satisfaction — Dhanalakshmi from Uppalaguptam

My name is Seelam Dhanalakshmi and I am from Uppalaguptam Mandal. My husband’s name is Seelam Durga Rao. He works as a tractor driver and with the income he is earning through that he is looking after the family. I want to help and support by husband in looking after the family. I know stitching but to buy a sewing machine we don’t have enough money.One of my neighbors K. Jyothi explai

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Love generates love and hatred breeds hatred

There are many sayings and proverbs told to us by our elders in good olden days. Given an opportunity they can be proved accordingly.   One such incident has taken place in DBNJ Vizag center. A man who was welcomed into the shelter expressed his gratitude emotionally.                                 &nbsp

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Confidence can bring lot of change in family status — Satyavathi from Uppalaguptam

My name is Nandampudi Satyavathi and I am from Uppalaguptam Mandal. My husband’s name is Sai babu and we have three daughters. We do the laundry work and are looking after the family. One daughter is studying B.A and the other is studying Intermediate. One volunteer by name B. Mangadevi who is working with Bosco Swasakthi MAC society came to our village and explained us about the saving

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Bosco Swalambana helped us in starting our own vegetable shop — Rayudu Kumari Ambajipet

My name is Rayudu Kumari and i am from Ambajipet Mandal. My husband’s name is Simhachalam. I have two sons and they are studying 10th class and 9th class respectively. I heard about the Bosco Swalambana MAC society and formed a  group along with my friends and named it as “Om Sai Manikanta Group”. we joined the society on 4-2-13. It has been 1.5 yrs that we associated with

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Never thought that we will start a Coir Business says Dhanalakshmi from Ambajipet

My name is Daara Dhanalakshmi and i am from Ambajipet Mandal. My husband’s name is Anandarao. “Bosco Swalambana MAC” society has conducted a seminar in our village in which they explained about the rules and regulations of the Micro Credit Program. After listening to them and understanding the guidelines i joined the society immediately. Its already been 4 yrs that i am as

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Coal business is helping me in leading a happy life says Adilakshmi from P.Gannavaram

My name is Adilakshmi and i am from P. Gannavaram. My husband’s name is Ramakrishna. I heard about the “Bosco Swayamkrushi MAC” society from my friends and it has already been 4.5 yrs that i have joined the MAC society. A volunteer from MAC society Ms. Babykumari came to my place and explained about the society to me and then along with 8 other members we formed as a gr

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Weaving and Stitching can also make a living — Hymavathi from P.Gannavaram

My name is Hymavathi and i am from P. Gannavaram. My husband’s name is Satyanarayana. I heard about the “Bosco Swayamkrushi MAC” society from my friends and it has already been 4 yrs that i have joined the MAC society. My friend Meenakshi came to my place and explained about the society to me and then along with 8 other members we formed as a group and named it as “Sat

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Jagadish of class 4 from Janapriya Techno School

Hai! I am Jagadish studying in 4th standard in Janapriya Techni School hyderguda, Rajendranagar. I am very happy because of Bosco Seva Kendra tuition they are teaching all subjects and also songs with actions. I am enjoying while studying I improved in maths and hindi. Before coming to this tuition I was poor and a dull student. Now I am satisfied with teachers and the training. Thanks

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Niharika of Class 7 from Krishi High School

Hello! I am niharika studying in 7th standard in (krishi high school) E.E.I campus. I am very happy because now when I  started going to tuition (B.S.K) I am doing all my home work’s regularly. Before this I was irregular and was very poor in Hindi and maths subjects. Now I improved a lot in Hindi and maths subjects and also developed my Hand writing. I am very happy and enjoying w

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Chandra Prasad .G of class 3 from Krishi High School

Hai! My name is G.Chandra Prasad studying in 3rd standard at krishi high school budwel(E.E.I campus). This is my tuition and I learned (2 to 20) tables. I also improved in reading and writing Hindi along with my hand writing in all subjects. Thank you to Bosco Seva Kendra. I learnt about Children’s Parliament here and i want to start it at my neighborhood with my friends. I am

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Anand Raj of class 4 from Adarsha Vidyalaya

Hai may name is K. Anand Raj studying in 4th class in Adarsha Vidyalaya Budwel. I am attending my tuition in Budwel (Bosco Seva Kendra). I am enjoying in tuition while studying, reading and singing songs. I also learned how to read and write Hindi and Telugu as before joining the tuition I don’t know how to read and write those languages. I also improved my hand writing in Bosco Seva Kendr

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Prasanna of class 5 from Govt High School

Hello! My name is prasanna 5th class studying in Govt High School Budwel. I am attending a tuition at Budwel Bosco Seva Kendra. In this tuition I learned reading and writing English and Telugu. Especially I thank Bosco Seva Kendra as they are taking care in studies personally of each and every child. Now I am very interestingly waiting to start a Children’s Parliament at my neighborhood

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Manasa from Janapriya Techno School

Hello my name is N. Manasa,  studying 6th class in Janapriya Techno school, Hyderguda. After coming to this tuition (BSK) I have improved my studies. I was irregular in doing home works before but now I am doing regular at doing home works and also learning songs with actions. Thank you After seeing the Children’s Parliament being run here i also want to start one at my neighborhoo

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Summer camp of 45 days helps learn English and improve many skills

I am writing these few lines from DBHRDC institute at Gagillpuram,  to share a little information about the Summer Camp 2014. We had begun Spoken English Summer Camp (for 45 days) on 11th of March. In order to facilitate family atmosphere in children for the first two days we conducted ice breaking sessions. During the ice breaking session Rev. Fr. Santiagu, the director welcomed the youth

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Helpings Hands are better than Praying lips

Don Bosco Navajeevan Vizag distributed Uniforms, Bags and Books to 23 underprivileged children of Visakhapatnam slums and fishermen’s children, under the banner ‘Back to School/College.’ Chief Guest Rev Fr. Thomas the director gave away the school bags, books, uniforms and stationery to the children in the presence of students and their parents. Addressing on the occasion, F

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TRAINING PROGRAM ON DAIRY BEST PRACTICES — BOSCO SEVA KENDRA-HYDERABAD

Objective :  Educate the dairy farmers in dairy best practices by professionals Short Description: BSK conducted one day training program on best dairy practices for the dairy farmers and dairy members of our MACS located at different places, promoted and supported by Bosco Seva Kendra. Resource person’s Mr.Gopi/Mr.Kesav from District Rural Development Agency having more than 10

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Visit to Mulukunoor Women Cooperative Dairy, Karimnagar

Bosco Seva Kendra (BSK) the development Office of Salesian Province of Hyderabad had organized an exposure visit to Mulukanoor Women Cooperative Dairy located at Karimnagar District, on July 3, 2014 for women dairy farmers of BSK Self Help Groups (SHG).  This dairy is run by Women Self Help Groups on cooperative society principles, which won National award.  The Journey began

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TRIBAL WOMEN UPLIFTMENT — CONTRIBUTION OF DON BOSCO

As it is noted that Don Bosco has its roots spread in tribal women empowerment, on the 23rd of June 2014, nearly 500 women from various villages of Tajangi, Lambasingi and Pedda Barada participated in the opening of MACS (Mutual Aided Cooperative Society)programme at Tajangi, Chintapalli. The Don Bosco ITDS is helping the tribal women in 24 mandals and 16 thousand women are having a saving of

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Career Guidance at Guntur for three days

Career Guidance program was conducted from 9th June, 2014 to 11th June, 2014 in Guntur District by Mr. Solomon (Career Guidance Coordinator) and Mr. Mohan (Project Coordinator) with support of  Fr. Thomas Santiagu (Director) and Fr. Kishore. The CG program was conducted from 9th of June, 2014 to 11th of June, 2014 by Mr. Solomon and Mr. Mohan with the support of the Directors and Staff o

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Success Story of A.Koteswari fromDharani Mac Society Chebrolu Mandal

From among many success stories of the Bosco MAC Societies here is one which is very interesting and encouraging.  I am Aramanda Koteswari, resident of Godavarru village, Chebrolu mandal. My husband is agricultural laborer. I have three children, two boys and one girl. Elder son and daughter got married and younger son is living with us.  My younger son is not educated; he also works as

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Evaluation Report on Anuragam (Tsunami Education Project)

Project Supported by : DW-Bonn & Salesian Mission – Germany Name of the Report : Anuragam (Tsunami Education Project) Language : English Content : External evaluation report on Tsunami education project implemented by Bosco Seva Kendra (BSK). The broad objective of the evaluation was to assess the Project, with regard to the nature of current intervention &nd

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Women’s Day Celebrations @ BIRD Office — Guntur

We conducted women’s day program at IRD premises was celebrated very grandly with 400 women from Guntur rural, urban and Tadikonda Mandal all being the members of Mutually Aided Co-operative Societies(MAC’s) which get support from Bosco Seva Kendra-Hyderabad. Our chief Guests are Smt.Kuchupudi.Vijayamma (Ex Z.P Chairman), Sri.Kuchupudi. Sambasivarao(Ex Chairman for State Libraries), an

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Women’s Day @ Ponnur

    With a gathering of 300 women, The International Women’s Day was celebrated very majestically at Don Bosco, Ponnur on 10th March 2014. The Chief Guest Mrs. Kalayani, The Principal, VNR College of Engineering. Enlightening the gathering about the girl child’s birth and education the chief guest gave an inspiring speech highlighting some of the important issues of the women

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Training Program on MACS Book Keeping and Best Practices

We organized 2 days training program for the federation leaders from our operational area on 4th and 5th of November in BIRD, Guntur. Fifty two leaders participated and learned about the best practices and book keeping for the Mutually aided cooperative society (MAC). The resource persons were: Fr. Baly From Bosco Integral Rural development, Guntur Mr. Ratanraju from Bosco Seva Kendra

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Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

Three staff members from BSK attended a three day (29, 30 and 31 October 2013) workshop on “Asset Based Community Development’ at “Balavikas” training Center at Kazipoet, Warangal District. The main resource person was Mr. Shoury Reddy the director of Balavavikas training center. Mr. Chandrashekar, Mr. Job and Mr. Ratnaraju, the three coordinators of BSK participated in t

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Disha

Career guidance and job placements to unemployed rural and marginalized youth in Andhra Pradesh   Who are the Beneficiaries : Rural and unemployed youth above 15 years from marginalized communities in Andhra Pradesh. Brief description of the project: The primary purpose of guidance is to assist individuals in their exploration of these complex issues, to

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Children’s Parliament

Children’s parliament – (a forum for child participation in governance) and supplementary learning in tuition centers   Who are the Beneficiaries : Children of 40 communities in the twin cities and neighboring the city of Hyderabad – 240 children in the age group 6-14. Brief description of the project: 1The right to participat

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Water and Sanitation Programme

Rehabilitation through providing drinking water facilities to the poor living in 12 villages affected by Tsunami in the district of Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh. 800 Beneficiaries of Chinnapattapalem village of Kothapatnam Mandal 1500 Beneficiaries of Pallepalem village of Kothapatnam Mandal 350 Beneficiaries of Chenchupapayapalem village of Kothapatnam Mandal 350 Beneficiaries of Ethamu

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Drinking Water

Providing Fluoride- free drinking water to 20 villages in Nalgonda and Mehaboobnagar districts in Andhra Pradesh   Who are the Beneficiaries : People of 20 villages in Nalgonda and Mehaboobnagar  District in Andhra Pradesh. Brief description of the project : Serious problems are faced in several parts of Nalgonda  and Mehaboobnagar districts in Andhra Pradesh

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DB Action India

Don Bosco Action India (DBAI) is the national network of the regional networks of Don Bosco human and social development organizations with constituent partners across India   Who are the Beneficiaries : Marginalized communities, especially youth, Creating a national impact against structures of injustice,  Providing a platform and a voice to the poor and

DB Tech.

Don Bosco Tech. is the network of 125 Don Bosco skill training centers which provides employment-linked and market-driven short duration vocational courses to the economically and socially marginalized youth.   Who are the Beneficiaries : Youth from below poverty line. Around 46000 underprivileged youth from 24 states will be trained in market-driven course and

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Micro-Credit Program

Empowerment of Women through Microcredit Program   Who are the Beneficiaries : 13954 marginalized families in 26 mandals of Andhra Pradesh. Brief description of the project: This is a thrift and credit programme for the marginalized women. These women cannot get credit from banks as they cannot offer “security”. In the rural areas the money le

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Summer Camps

Spoken English and Basic Computer Trainings to 1920 rural children from 16 Don Bosco Mission Centres.   Who are the Beneficiaries : Around 2000 children from our Don Bosco Institutions in the rural areas to be given training during summer vacation. Brief description of the project: Many children closely related to our mission centers , attend government s

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Manos Unidas visits DBNJ, Hyderabad

On 21 November, 2016 Ms.Ana Luna and Ms.Mercy from Manos Unidas, Spain visited Hyderabad.  Accompanied by Fr.P.Arul Das, BSK Director they went to Don Bosco Navajeevan  Bhoiguda. The team had an interaction with the staff and students.  Fr.B Sudhakar, Rector of the Institution briefed the visitors about the works rendered by DB Navajeevan Centres. Thereafter, they went on to DB R

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Head of NSFDC appreciates DBHRDC, Gagilapuram

An Appreciation from NSFDC Mr.R R Singh Chairman & Managing Director and C Ramesh Rao Asst. General Manager of National SC & ST Finance & Development Corporation visited the Don Bosco Human Resource Development Center at Gagillapuram and interacted with the students on 14 February, 2015. The students invited the visitors with welcome songs and provided refreshments. M

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