EMPOWERING
DON BOSCO IN INDIA YOUNG AT DEDICATED RISK
TO EDUCATION OF LESS PRIVILEDGED
Bosconet is the Resource Mobilization unit of Don Bosco India. Don Bosco (DB) has been empowering youth since 1906 through education, livelihood skills, right based gender equality with presence across 350 districts, 186 cities, and towns, with beneficiaries in over 30,000 villages in India. Their multifaceted projects have created sustainable impact towards lives of ten lakh marginalized children, youth, and women.
120 DB technical institutes and 129 youth centers have skilled over 8 lakh youth belonging to below poverty line families, Scheduled Tribes, women who are ensured employability through their 52 job placement centers. After being recognized by Government of India as the largest non-governmental technical education provider, they now have the mission to train 22 lakh youth in livelihood skills by this year 2020.
DB Young at Risk (YaR) forum, which has rehabilitated over 45,000 children, from the slums, rural communities. BOSCO was honored by the Government of India with the “National Award for Child Welfare” and recognized by Ministry of Women & Child Development for its “Quality Brand Award” for its outstanding services rendered to the vulnerable children. Till date, over 1.75 lakh missing children have been rescued. They also offer integral education through 257 schools in the cities, towns, and villages, adding a new spring of life to 2.4 lakh students under their care.
Empowering a woman is empowering a family. Believing the same spirit, they have enabled the socio-economic upliftment of over 82,500 women through more than 6,600 Self Help groups. Over 1.5 lakh women have been sensitized about Human Rights while 45,000 have been financially included in the economic structures through credit institutes.
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All Don Bosco technical institutes take young people from the poorer sections of society and offer them not merely skills for a job but also transform them into responsible, hardworking citizens. Catering to the skilling and employability needs of the
