Don Bosco Navajeevan

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A Home for Street dren and Young at RiSK

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Empowering Street Children, Building Brighter Futures

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Sponsor a Child, Change a Life

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Explore Our Success Stories

See how children have overcome adversity with the help of DBNJ.

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Medical Camp For All DBNJ Centres 27.06.2025

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Navajeevan Family Day, 18th August 2024

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Navajeevan Family Day, 18th August 2024

The story of Don Bosco Navajeevan Bala Bhavan, Secunderabad, began very early after the second provincial chapter of the St. Joseph’s province of Hyderabad in 1996, brought forth deliberations to launch new ventures for the welfare of street children in the cities Hyderabad and Vishakapatnam. This good aspiration of the Salesians was further strengthened by the excellent work being done for street children in Vijayawada by the Salesians of Don Bosco.

In April 1998, the Salesian Provincial Council took the sagacious decision of first starting a project for street children in Hyderabad; it being the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, and only later Vishakapatnam. They appointed Fr. Maddichetty Noel to spearhead this mission. He was sent to BIRDY (Bosco Institute of Research and Development for Youth) to begin the work while also animating some of their programmes. Thus began Don Bosco Navajeevan Bala Bhavan, a “project for children and youth at risk”.

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Street Education

Bridge School

Counseling

Medical Support

Slum Education

Hostel Placement

Day Care Homes

Work for Migrants

All Projects

Solar Power Project, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad

The present proposal is setup of a Solar based power project at Don Bosco Navajeevan Rehabilitation Centre, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad. This project will stabilize our Vocational training centre and mitigate power problems through alternative solar power. This will help youth to acquire knowledge on various training programmes through interactive sessions with resource persons in the centre. This will help youth to unleash their hidden potential to make a living.

Medical Care for the Street involved Children and Working Children

The present proposal towards medical assistance for the Children at Don Bosco Navajeevan Centres. The medical department is also has a role of maintaining constant vigil to meet each child in the shelter and in the city backyard – the street. He/she is met at whatever state he/she is in, friendship is elicited and hope is provided that he/she will be supported to build up the future life by medical department building rapport with children.

Re-uniting child with his family

Home placement is the primary objective of NAVAJEEVAN (New Life). NAVAJEVAN believes that the Child belongs to his home and that is where the children can grow up best. Family is the smallest social unit in the society and it is here that a child acquires the skills necessary to lead a fulfilling adult life. Home placement is the process of reinstating the children back in their homes as soon as it may be possible which a goal that NAVAJEEVAN pursues with intent is.

Don Bosco Mela-2014

ACTION 2015 Light the Way

Summer Camp 2014-2015

Stop Hunger Now India

Seva Mela 2015

Picnic to JALVIHAR

Trainings

Non Formal Tech.Training,
Driving,
Electrical,
Carpentry,
Welding,
Tailoring & Embroidery,
Bakery,
Computers & D T P,
Printing Press & Book Binding,
Garment Making.

D. Sonu

Street kid turns to be choreographer

I am D. Sonu, originally from Delhi, but migrated to Borabanda, Hyderabad. I was in Don Bosco Navajeevan for 10 years. I would like to tell you something about myself. Now I am 25 years old. My father name is Vijay Singh, a Security Officer and my mother is Gita, House wife. I am the eldest among the two sons in our family. When I was very young my parents were caught of stealing in which I was also involved. And we had a very tough time to defend ourselves. After 5 months, my parents were divorced. I was living with my mother for a couple of months. Eventually, she abandoned me and I was left on the streets to fend for myself. I started working at mechanical shops, hotels, etc. for living. Once I was unfairly blamed for a theft. It was a humiliating experience and I left the job and became a vagabond until I met the staff of Don Bosco Navajeevan. Initially, it was very difficult to adjust to life at Navajeevan.

Kishore

A Hero Returns Home

Kishore is a soft spoken young man who ran away from home in 1999 when he was 9 years old and stayed in streets, hostels and at last reached Don Bosco Navajeevan in 2003 a centre for Children from the Street at Hyderabad. He started as a printer cum binder; later he worked in the kitchen and the bakery. After he was confident in his work, decided to seek a job outside to eke out his livelihood and settle down in life. It was then that Fr. P.G. Francis, the Principal of the Technical School invited him to run the bakery. Kishore had worked earlier under a master baker and knew how to bake bread, biscuits and cakes, even try his hand at making puffs and samosas. But now he was being asked to be in- charge. He was just eighteen and to his own surprise he agreed to give try. From then on turning back in his career as a baker.

Shiva and Pavan

A Hero Returns Home

For the first time in the history of Don Bosco Navajeevan, Hyderabad, two of our boys, Shiva and Pavan, got selected for the coveted Andhra Pradesh Residential School (APRS) programme. The entrance test conducted on April 27, 2014 was taken by five boys from Navajeevan, besides the thousands from the state. Securing this coveted admission, purely on the basis of their hard work, in spite of not having the best of education so far and the least of comforts, is what we congratulate them for. For the first time in the history of Don Bosco Navajeevan, a home for street involved children and young at Risk of Hyderabad, five of our children appeared for the selection exam conducted on 27th April 2014 of Andhra Pradesh Residential Schools admission Test. These schools are run by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the children who are economically poor but good in studies and selection is purely on the basis of merit.

Bala Krishna

Street to Society via DBNJ

Bala Krishna is one of the older boys in Don Bosco Navajeevan. Balakrishna is from Madurai in Tamilnadu. His father died when he was 10 years old. He has one elder sister and an elder brother. The age difference between the elder ones and Balakrishna is around 12 years. They have papad business in Madurai. His mother and his brother are looking after the business. The situation at home was strict and not so pleasant. At the age of 12 Balakrishna ran away from his elder brother who is 12 years older to him. The reasons were for being irregular to school and getting beatings from his elder brother and lack of support from his family members.

Gajulavarthi Vishnu

Street to Society via DBNJ

I am Gajulavarthi Vishnu. I am from Gajwel which is in Medak District. My father’s name is Ramulu and my mother is Nagamani. We are three sons to our parents. My elder brother’s is Ravi my younger brother is Raju who is physically challenged. My family is a Very poor family struggled to get basic needs. My elder brother is the blood winner of the family as my father has no work. He used to just roam here and there. My mother is a house wife. My elder brother got married and got a son to Laxmi my sister in law. My family background is very pathetic. When my younger brother was born my parents were separated. The reasons were uncertain for me since I was small. My mother took us to Guntur. There she got married second time to my stepfather who is not so pleasant with me. He used to send me to work, used to beat me for any simple reasons. I was stopped going to the school. It was really tough for me to stay at home.

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