Salaam Baalak Trust - working for street children

Introduction

With the valuable funds from the donor a girl named Kajal residing in Arushi Children’s Home of Salaam Baalak Trust has been supported. At the Home Kajal has bene able to access education, health, medical and other facilities. The caring and nurturing environment provided at the home has brought in visible positive changes in Kajal.

Family Background

Kajal hails from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. She is 16 years old. Her date of birth is  June 20, 2002. She has been living in Arushi since 2009. Her family occupation is Farming. Both of her parents are HIV positive, thus they were incapacitated to look after her. According to Kajal, her family was not well off and could not support her education and higher studies. This was the reason she decided to leave her home and she was happy that she came under the protective ambit of Arushi Children’s Home.

Academic and Overall Progress

In spite of very trying personal times (she lost her father to HIV and her mother is very critical), Kajal continued her good performance in class, she scored 60 percent in Class 9. She is currently studying in Class 10in Rotary public school.

Kajal is a very creative girl. She plays keyboard and is good at drawing and dancing. She has participated in SBT’s annual play.She has good command over English and often participates in various SBT plays and activities. She now intends to learn swimming and Arushi team is in the process of finding swimming classes for her.

Kajal is a very confident and highly ambitious girl. She strives to learn new skills constantly.She aims to work in Multinational Company.

Future Plan

The team at Arushi is encouraging her to perform exceedingly well in her studies as she has the potential to do much better.

• Awards_received_by_SBT.pdf (PDF)