Orphanage             ... for the Destitute         Vocational Training                     Our need...

 

The “Street Boys Club” started at YMCA Esplanade as a night school, was the precursor to the ‘Home for the Homeless’ established at Fort St.George in 1947. The Street Boys Club then came to be called the “Boys Town”.

 

 

Objective ...

              Rehabilitating the street children, converting the destitute children into responsible citizens and giving the ‘light of learning’ and a future to the destitute.

   

Providing…

              Opportunities for mental, physical, and spiritual growth and empowers with education and vocational skills.

 

 

Some noteworthy features..

              Carpentry section, rattan training, welding workshop, a multipurpose hall and a chapel.

Unlike conventional orphanages, the YMCA Boys Town not only provides food, accommodation and education for its inmates, but also trains them in professional crafts and ensures that they are successfully rehabilitated.

 

           The modest beginning, which started as a night school for pavement dwellers and rag pickers, eventually saw the functioning of a destitute home and now as a higher secondary school with over 2000 children and 50 teachers

After formal education till the VIII Standard, boys are assessed according to their performance and are either sent for higher education or placed in the industrial section where useful trades like Carpentry, Rattan work and Welding are taught. On completion of vocational training, efforts are made to place the boys in suitable employment. Thousands of boys have been rehabilitated and are happily settled in life as respectable citizens.

  • To build additional 15 classrooms

  • To provide more Benches and tables

  • To lay concrete roads with the campus

  • To provide Street lighting in the campus specially around the destitute home, and community development centers

  • To provide amenities and equipments for development of campsite

  • To raise the ground level and improve the existing drainage and sewage facilities in the destitute home and to develop a rain harvesting system.

Rise up and reach out a helping hand, a touch of love.

Bring some cheer in the life of someone.

Make a difference in the life of someone today.

 
 

YMCA Madras, 223, N.S.C.Bose Road, P.B.No.194, Esplanade, Chennai - 600 001. ymcamadras@usa.net Tel: 91-44-25383941/81,25395846 Fax: 91-44-25383168

 

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