Clothes for 300 Children At Don Bosco Trivandrum

New clothes: New Smile

Don Bosco Veedu Society provides shelter for street children, rescued from the railway station or bus station. Their appreance and dressing style are poor. At the time of rescue they may not be having good clothes to wear, due to their life events.

New clothes: New Smile program formulated for helping the children to recieve atleast a set of new clothes. The most celebrated festival in the state of Kerala was onam. Durring the festive of onam, usually people do buy a set of new pair of clothes. Don Bosco veedu society as part of the onam celebration, provided new pair of clothes of 15 street children.

A boy named Jagadeesh, who was rescued from child labour mentioned that till the date he never had a good pair of cloth. He was from Rajastan, India, there his family always  use old clothes which they buy from the second hand shop. He mentioned that the smell of new pair of cloth feel comfortable.

Likewise many of them in the centre keepup their good smile, when they recieves new pair of clothes. We would like to appreciate the efforts of our donors who helped our children to wear a set of colourful dress.

Through the support of our generous donors we have raised 6392 dollars which has helped to provide  new pairs of clothes and toilet articles to rescued children from streets of Trivandrum. A new pair of clothes is always a welcome gift to a street child who has been using rags for long. The gratitude for the gift is always twinkling eyes and a bright smile. We offer those smiles to the 66 donors who have contributed to raise the amount. We get an average of 300 chidlren every year and you have helped us reach to the majorityof the rescued children. The chidlren resued are those who wander on the streets or reach Trivandrum through the railway. We have a helpline which gets lots of calls on such chidlren and we immediately rescue them and provide them temporary shelter. Children are provide long term rehabilitation either throuh the government systems or with the help of other NGOs. Family of lost chidlren are traacaed and they are send back home if the family is functional otherwise they are rehabilkitated to chidlren's homes in their own territoy as language issues are there in schooling such children.