The Salem Don Bosco Anbu Illam Social Service Society (DBAI) implements a comprehensive approach to achieve its mission of empowering children, youth, and women, as well as fostering community development. The key components of our approach include:
About us
The Salem Don Bosco Anbu Illam Social Service Society (DBAI)
DBAI is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that has been dedicated to the well-being of children, youth, and women, as well as community development since its inception in 1988.
Our primary aim is to establish a just and equal society where everyone has a chance to thrive, with a particular focus on empowering at-risk youth.
For over three decades, DBAI has been committed to making a lasting impact on the lives of vulnerable individuals and communities. Our programs and initiatives aim to address the root causes of social disparities and provide sustainable solutions that foster long-term change. By promoting education, skill development, and community engagement, we work to ensure that every child, young person, and woman has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
For over three decades, DBAI has been committed to making a lasting impact on the lives of vulnerable individuals and communities. Our programs and initiatives aim to address the root causes of social disparities and provide sustainable solutions that foster long-term change. By promoting education, skill development, and community engagement, we work to ensure that every child, young person, and woman has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Our Approach
Collective action
Mobilising and organising the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, youth and community-specifically women into child and people’s collectives and facilitating collective actions.
Emphasising education
Education is a potential tool to liberate children from all clutches of bondage, modern servitude with cognitive development and creative learning, and means to realise the right to life with dignity and protection.
Holistic growth of young people
Working to create immediate and lasting perceptible changes in the living conditions of deprived and deplorable children and working conditions of adolescents and young
Short term and long term interventions
Focusing on catalytic and facilitating communities to empower children and youth in the areas of education, health, livelihood, social engineering, and environment.
Participatory approach
Enabling and facilitating people to take part in governance at the local and state levels through networking with NGOs and CBOs for ensuring sustainable development and growth.
Holistic intervention
Interventions are multifaceted focusing on Rescue, Restore, Recover and Reformation.
Working with government bodies
DBAI focuses on scaling up effective responses to the ground realities and to the complex issues of children, young people and the community, aiming to create a
child-friendly society with the collaboration of government bodies.
Participatory approach
Enabling and facilitating people to take part in governance at the local and state levels through networking with NGOs and CBOs for ensuring sustainable development and growth.
Child friendly approach
Access to adequate, socially as well as culturally relevant food is important for healthy childhood, since lacking nutritious food has severe consequences for the children’s future both physical and mental wellbeing and ensuring and improving their nutritional safety is focused.
