Indoor Programme
Outdoor Programme
Awareness Programme

Indoor Programme

A full-time home for street boys that provides:
• Basic amenities plus healthcare and counseling
• Education or vocational training
• Street and stage theatre training
• A place to be a child in a safe, healthy community

The Indoor Programme is a supportive, safe home in Lado Sarai, where up to 15 boys live, learn and grow together as a family.

The boys, aged 5-20, choose to join the home where they commit to healthy choices: overcoming drug and alcohol addictions, attending vocational training or formal/ non-formal education, eating complete healthy meals, and caring for each other as brothers.

Counseling sessions help the children reconcile with their past. Counselors, staff, and volunteers also support the child in approaching their family. We talk to the families to confirm the real cause of conflict, and work with the families and the children to reunite them whenever possible.

The Indoor Programme has supported 40+ children in becoming healthy, self-dependent individuals over the last 5 years.

Outdoor Programme

A DayCare Centre for street children that provides:
• a safe place with caring volunteers
• basic amenities plus healthcare
• formal and non-formal education
• group activities

Located in Jama Masjid, Old Delhi, the Outdoor Programme is a Day Care Centre that offers street children a safe place for the day.

Sponsored by Max India Foundation, the Center is open 6 days a week, 10am–6pm, and currently has a regular group of 20-50 girls and boys coming every day. Once a week a doctor from Max visits, providing medical attention free of charge.

A typical day is as follows:
10-12: personal hygiene and Center cleaning
12-2: non-formal education – math, Hindi, English, art
2-4: movie
4-6: non-formal education – sexual health, HIV/AIDS awareness, story telling, theatre

Many volunteers offer their time and unique skills to the children, conducting workshops and activities on a range of topics that include: HIV and sexual abuse, art and theatre, cricket and movie outings.

We are delighted that several children are now attending formal school on a regular basis!

Awareness Programme

The Awareness Programme comprises of 3 approaches, each aimed at targeting various sectors of the public with different messages about society, environment and self.

1. Theatre: We use street and stage theatre to generate awareness and funds for our organization. We have performed professional stage plays in Shri Ram Centre, India Habitat Centre, universities and colleges. We have acted street plays for WHO, World Bank, Max India Foundation, various companies including RBS, MakeMyTrip and EXL Service, as well as several NGO events.

Our latest topics for street plays include: Global Warming, HIV Awareness and Female Foeticide. If you have a different topic you’d like us to address, please present it to us and we might be able to create something dazzling for you! One street play costs 5,000/- plus conveyance.

2. Theatre Workshops: Theatre artists Amit Sinha and Lokesh Jain facilitate these workshops in schools and colleges, with organizations and volunteers. The purpose of a workshop is to build understanding of one’s own self and of society while having lots of fun participating together as a group! The workshops encourage participants to expand their capabilities and become more confident in themselves as public speakers. Please contact us if you are interested. One workshop costs 5,000/- .

3. Night Walk: This free, monthly, 4-hour walk aims to sensitize the public to the needs, dangers, and fun of being a street child. We take a group of 25 people out from 8pm-midnight, walking through the streets, visiting shelters, and providing an experiential learning about life on the streets.