The Salem Don Bosco Anbu Illam Social Service Society

The Children's Parliament operates much like the national parliament, providing a forum for children to actively participate in addressing social concerns within their communities. In this Parliament, members pinpoint diverse social issues in their locality and collaborate on ideas to overcome these challenges.

DBAI has set up 3 dropout centres to offer these children the chance to resume their education, ultimately aiding in the prevention of early child marriages, early pregnancies, and child labour.

DBAI is committed to offering vocational training for youth, we aim to improve their skills and facilitate access to employment prospects. We believe that by imparting job-focused skills, we can empower young individuals and assist them in achieving a brighter future.

To promote community empowerment and catalase positive transformation at the grassroots level, we create community-based organizations (CBOs) that concentrate on increasing awareness and encouraging cooperative efforts within local communities.

Women are pivotal in driving community transformation and empowerment. By actively participating in Federations and local community groups, they are progressively taking control of their economic security and making significant contributions to the welfare of their families and communities.

DBAI helps migrant workers to access government welfare schemes and offers mental wellbeing counselling and general health care support.

Shelter is a vital requirement for runaway, street, orphan, semi-orphan, HIV infected and homeless children, who are often found in bus and railway stations. These shelters also serve the needs of orphaned children and others in need of shelter.

The Child Right Protection Centre is working for the rehabilitation of the runaway and trafficked children in and around Salem. We have three street contact centers in the new bus stand, Kichipalayam and another is in Chinnamapalayam and efforts have taken to establish another street contact Centre in the old bus stand. Through these street contact centers nearly 9850 children have been rescued and rehabilitated.

DBAI forms separate adolescent groups for boys and girls in the communities they serve, offering a supportive and enriching atmosphere for youth to acquire vital life skills, receive career guidance and realise their full potential

Transformation of the society is not possible by single handed effort. We need a movement of people to support and carry forward the transformation. In a same way to establish a child friendly society we need people who can extend their support to protect the basic rights of children. Thus, with this motive in mind Caring Community Groups are formed to support the works of Anbu Illam. The members of caring community groups’ are identified from various groups like Auto Drivers, Scavengers, Transport Staff, Porters, Vendors, Shop Owners, Corporation Staff, Police, and Railway Police Force (RPF), etc, to promote and to protect child rights and to support in the process of rehabilitation of street and working children. Each caring community group consist of 10 to 15 members and they meet on a monthly basis to discuss the issues that are really concern about the children and their welfare.

Vocational Guidance is an important and very urgent need of Youth today. Many of the youngsters are very well educated and well qualified, but they find difficult to find the right job. In order to realize the felt need of the context, a centre for career guidance, training and job placement was established under the umbrella of ‘Don Bosco Vazhikaatti’ to create an awareness among the urban & rural youth about the available job opportunities in the government and private sectors, through self-employment schemes and career oriented services.

An institution achieves its greatness not in carrying out the activities by itself, but by the mere fact that the activities are run without them, that is through the volunteers. Don Bosco Anbu Illam has been adhering to so many people through various activities in and around Salem. Irrespective of the limited number of staff the activities are still carried out efficiently through the help of many volunteers that it has promoted. In most of the places it is the volunteers who do the works of Anbu Illam. The organization has moved to a greater height through people who volunteer themselves to take up what Anbu Illam has envisaged and foreseen