GENERAL OBJECTIVES

BOSCO’s general objectives are the following:

• To rescue the children round the clock from the vulnerable pockets (Railway Stations, Bus stations, markets, streets) of the Bangalore city as well as from the surrounding slums
• To rehabilitate the children rescued through education, health care, counseling, skill training, family reintegration and follow up
• To run open shelters or drop in centers to wean out children addicted to streets and addictive substances
•  To conduct overnight camps to root out the anti-social elements from the children having high risk behavior
• To advocate with the government for child friendly policies and laws
• To network with other like-minded organizations and others for the restoration and rehabilitation of the children
• To research and publish books on issues related to children and to replicate good practices
• To work for the betterment of the government schools through the formation of child rights clubs and strengthening of SDMC
• To provide supplementary education to the deprived children in the slum communities so that they don’t drop out of education
• To support the police for providing child friendly care to children
• To create child friendly places at the city bus stations, railway stations and other strategic locations of the city of Bangalore
• To provide alternative family care to children without families.
• To provide after care and social reintegration of the children