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Make A Difference (MAD) is an Indian non-profit organisation, working to ensure better outcomes for children in orphanages and shelters across India.Make A Difference works with nearly 3460 children in 67 shelter homes across 23 cities in India, delivering impact through a fellow-managed volunteering model of 4,255 young participants.
Originally established in 1988 to rehabilitate the children who appeared in the film, Salaam Bombay! (1988) in Mumbai, Salaam Baalak Trust started working in 1989, and by 2005 it had 17 centres for street child throughout India. [2] This struck a chord with the trustees, who identified the potential in India's street children.
India has an estimated one hundred thousand or more street children in each of the following cities: New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. [2] Mainly because of family conflict, they come to live on the streets and take on the full responsibilities of caring for themselves, including working to provide for and protecting themselves.
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The shelters have inadequate bedding, water, bathrooms, tools, gas for cooking, rodent control, activity space and non-functional first aid. Additionally, there is bad lighting, ventilation, and fire safety. Women and children do not have their own shelters. [2] Thus, the bare minimum of government demands are not being met. [2]
House of Love (Mumbai) (Sneha Sadan) houses homeless children in the area of Mumbai, India, along with other services. It is a work of the Society of Jesus. The first House of Love was a hut at Kajuwadi in Chakala, Andheri with just five boys. In April 1963 a second home was started in Gundowli village.
In India, a child welfare centre in Kolkata was supported and this marked the entry of the organization in India. After the war ended, Save the Children began work with displaced children, refugees and concentration camp survivors in the devastated areas of France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Austria, and Poland.
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