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Bosco


 

Activities:
Advocacy, Child Labour, CHILDLINE, Child Rescue Booths at City Railway Station & KSRTC Bus Stand, Creating Public Awareness, Drug  De-addiction & Prevention, Formal & Non-formal Education, Health Care,  Observation Home, CWC, Govt. Children’s Home, Special Juvenile Police  Unit (support), Missing Child Bureau, Home Placement, Job Placement,  Room Placement,  Research & Documentation, Counselling Centre cum  Transit Home, Talent Enhancement, Vocational Training.
History 
BOSCO, a project for the Children on the street, homeless child labourers and the young at risk, was an initiative of a few daring students of the theology from Kristu Jyoti College, Bangalore. by 185, it became an activity of the Salesian Province of Bangalore . Over the year it has developed, into a full-fledged, charitable, non-profit organization, registered with the Bangalore City Corporation. BOSCO has its own Governing Body and an Advisory Committee and has now branched out into five city centres.

BOSCO Yuvodaya – Gandhinagar (1989)

 
Activities:
Five Centres  BOSCO Yuvodaya 
  •   Opened on 23rd January 1990, serves as day and night open shelter for children brought from all over the city. information about these children is gathered and preserved here. He/She is given preliminary counselling, and the family is contacted. those whose families cannot be contacted, or who are unwilling to return home, are referred to the other three city centres.
Address:
BOSCO Yuvodaya
No. 91, ‘B’ Street, 6th Cross  
Gandhinagar
Bangalore – 560 009 
Phone:
(080) 65.37.01.12
(080) 22.25.33.92
(080) 22.20.84.76
(080) 65.83.66.03                      MCB Bangalore Urban Dt.
(080) 65.83.66.04                      MCB State Coordinator
(080) 40.92.15.36                       MCB Dir                            
(080) 22.28.65.72
Mobile:
(0) 90.36.65.58.05                       Rt, Exe Dir
(0) 94.48.42.62.84                      Dir MCB
E-Mail:
bosco@blg.vsnl.net.in                            Office
dirhub_bangalore@homelink.in           MCB                     
irbosco_bangalore@homelink.in         MCB                
Web Site:
www.boscoban.org                    
Confreres
Fr. Alapurackal Edward           Rt, Exe Dir BOSCO,
                                                             Dir BOSCO Yuvodaya
Fr. Pazheparambil Joseph            Dir Missing Child Bureau
                                                           Govt. of Karnataka (Nodal)
 

BOSCO Mane – Chamrajpet (1986)
Activities:
BOSCO Mane
  •   Inaugurated on 8th December 1986, is a halfway home for boys below 14 years of age, who are willing to come off the streets. Depending on their aptitudes and interests, they are sent either for formal education or for training in some trade at the centre itself. It is also convalescence centre for the sick boys.
Address:
Bosco Mane
242, 4th Main
Chamrajpet                                                 
Bangalore – 560 018
Phone:
(080) 26.60.47.70
(080) 22.42.41.38
(080) 65.37.01.11
Mobile:
(0) 97.40.89.98.09                     Dir Bosco Mane
(0) 94.48.87.82.91                     VR
E-Mail:
boscochildline@gmail.com          Childline
boscomane2010@gmail.com       BOSCO Mane
Confreres
Fr. Kanijrakattu Johnson               Adm, Dir Bosco Mane
Fr. Payyamthadathil George        VR, Dir Projects

BOSCO Nilaya – K.R. Market (2001)
Activities:
BOSCO Nilaya
  •   The fifth and most recent centre, inaugurated on 24th March 2001 in the City Market, is a day-night open shelter for children who wok on the streets, and need a place to sleep and to relax. it provides a safe environment for street children for healthy interaction and recreation.
Address:
Bosco Nilaya
D – 12, Jolly Masjid Road
Jolly Mohalla
Bangalore – 560 053
Phone:
(080) 65.37.01.15
Confreres
Fr. Kanjirakattu Johnson                Dir

BOSCO Nivas – Shivajinagar (2003)
Activities:
BOSCO Nivas
  •   Opened on 28th February 2003, as a 24 hour open shelter is mainly for the vegetable vendors, rag pickers, beggars, coolies, working in fruit shops, butcher shops hotel, garages etc.
  •   The two Child Rescue Booths (also called Don Bosco Makkala Ashraya)
  •   Set up at the railway station and the bus stand on 21st April 1998 and 29th June 1999 respectively, they serve mainly as contact points for children who arrive in the City from elsewhere. Initial help and counselling is provided to them on the spot to prevent them from falling a prey to the dangers on the street.
Address:
Bosco Nivas
SCEM Office, St. Xavier’s School
Old Cemetery Road, Shivajinagar
Bangalore – 560 051
Phone:
(080) 65.37.01.13
Confreres
Fr. Payyamthadathil George                 Dir

BOSCO Yuvakendra:  Magadi Road (1985)
Activities:
BOSCO Yuvakendra 
  •   Opened on 8th December 1985, is a residential centre for the run-away-boys, who are above 14. They are helped through counsellig, the learning of vocational skills, job placements etc.
Address:
Bosco Yuvakendra
D – 12, 1st Cross, Magadi Road
Bangalore – 560 023
Phone:
(080) 23.35.94.85
(080) 23.35.99.13
(080) 65.37.01.14
Mobile:
(0) 94.48.91.47.55                                        Dir
E-Mail:
boscoyk@gmail.com
Confreres
Fr. Muthuparakunnel Sebastian               Dir, LA
Fr. Vadakel Mathew                                   Cf

BOSCO Life Skill Training Centre – Sumanahalli (2005)
Address:
BOSCO Life Skill Training Centre
Malagala Road,
Vishvaneedam Post,
Bangalore – 560 091
Phone:
(080) 64.50.68.07
(080) 22.73.94.60
Mobile:
(0) 94.48.92.85.71                             Dir 
E-Mail:
bosco1@bgl.vsnl.net.in
cpvsdb@gmail.com                          Dir              
Confreres
Cl. Johnson Kennedy                        PT Yr 2
Fr. Kundukulangara Varghese      Dir

BOSCO Vikas (2006)
Address:
BOSCO Vikas
No. 37, 6th Cross
Sirsi Road, Chamarajpet
Bangalore – 560 018
Phone:
(080) 55.37.01.10
Confreres
Fr. Kanjirakattu Johnson                           Dir
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