The Vatsalya Foundation

Since its establishment in 1982, The Vatsalya Foundation (TVF) has been working closely with street children and youth in the city of Mumbai to help them discover options for a better future. The inception of TVF was seen in 1982 when a group of students from College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, came across street children who were staying or working at the railway stations, Marine Drive, near Bombay Hospital and other streets in Mumbai. The Vatsalya Foundation has been consistently working at building its own standards based on the Rights of the Child to Name & Nationality, Nutrition, Education, Health, Family Life, Play, Equal treatment, and Emergency Assistance. Through a direct intervention with the children on the streets and in the day care centre a regular follow has been maintained along with a planned rehabilitation process and in many cases there has been a consistent success in repatriation to the family and mainstreaming the child back to society.