Our Approach as a right-based organisation is to respect every person, especially those deprived of a dignified life and opportunities.

We believe the rights of the children, young, women, and the marginalized can be realized only through empowerment. Therefore, we focus on educational, social, economic, and cultural contexts and are policy-oriented.

Vision: Our Vision is to work as a catalyst in bringing sustainable change in the lives of underprivileged children, youth, and women with a life-cycle approach to development.

Mission: Our mission is to safeguard the rights, offer care and protection, and empower underprivileged children, youth, and women through education, innovative community-based development projects, and market-focused livelihood programmes.

Don Bosco's work for street children in Trivandrum began in May 1991. It started as a night shelter for street children and youth.

Trivandrum Don Bosco Veedu Society is part of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) congregation spread over 133 countries working for the welfare of children and youth, especially those at risk.

For reflection, sharing, and coordination among those involved in the Salesian ministry for the Young at Risk (YaR) in South Asia, to network with like-minded persons and organizations on behalf of YaR, to influence policies related to the young at risk at the state, national and international levels.

We have redesigned our logo recently to reflect who we are and what we do and to communicate the same with others. The logo incorporates English and Malayalam alphabets. Just as we reach out to people of multiple ethnicities speaking myriad languages

The Trivandrum Don Bosco Veedu Society’s legal status is registered under the Society’s Registration Act of Travancore 1955 Reg No: 963/91 dated 9th December 1991