Care & recovery
Support that helps children move toward safety, protection, and a stable path forward.
Salem, Tamil Nadu · Established 1988
A place to begin again.
Don Bosco Anbu Illam works alongside children, young people, women, and communities in Salem through protection, learning, skills, and meaningful participation.
01 / Our purposeSafety, dignity, possibility.
Work that keeps people at the centre.
DBAI is a Salem-based non-governmental social-service society. Its work has grown from a concern for children and young people in difficult circumstances into a wider commitment to women, families, migrants, and community life.
The guiding idea is practical and long-term: create conditions in which people can learn, recover, participate, and shape a more just everyday life.
Read the DBAI story02
Four connected fields of work.
Education access
Learning opportunities that keep young people connected to knowledge, confidence, and possibility.
Skills & agency
Training and practical support that can strengthen independence for young people and women.
Local participation
Working with communities so decisions, services, and development are more inclusive and durable.
03 / Learning in practice
Education is more than a classroom.
It can mean re-entering learning, receiving guidance, building a skill, or finding the confidence to take part. DBAI’s public programme history reflects this wide understanding of education and its role in a dignified life.
How the approach works04 / A steady method
Immediate care, lasting participation.
DBAI brings together direct support and long-term community work. The organisation’s public materials describe pathways that support recovery while building access to education, skills, health, and local decision-making.
Listen locally
Begin with the realities that children, young people, women, and communities face in their own settings.
Connect services
Link learning, protection, health, welfare, and community participation rather than treating them as separate needs.
Build ownership
Support collective action and meaningful involvement so progress can continue within the community.
05 / Visit & connect