Bosco Seva Kendra

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name=Bosco Seva Kendra
native_name=BSK


latin_name=
motto="Touching lives for a better future".
established=1992
type=Development Office of the Salesian Province of Hyderabad. Registered in 1993 under the Societies Registration Act.
president=Rev. Fr. M. Noel
director=Fr. B. Sudhakar
principal=
students=
city = Hyderabad
state = Andhra Pradesh
country = India
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address = Kismatpur, Don Bosco Nagar Post, Hyderabad 500 086, India
campus=Urban
telephone = 91 040 2419 0759
affiliations=
website=http://www.boscosevakendra.org/
footnotes=Data as of May 2008

Bosco Seva Kendra (BSK) is the Development Office of the Salesian Province of St. Joseph, Hyderabad.

It is situated in Kismatpur on Himayatsagar Road in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Motto

BSK with its motto "Touching Lives for a Better Future" intends to work with professional competence and collaborate with public and private donor agencies, trusts and foundations, to provide logistic and professional support to the various initiatives of Don Bosco Institutions and offices in Andhra Pradesh.

Legal status

BSK is a non-profit, non-political, and non-religious body registered under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Areas) Public Societies Registration Act, 1350 Fasli (Act 1 of 1350F).

History

Salesians of Don Bosco commenced their services in Andhra Pradesh in 1964 at Guntur with a technical school and press entrusted to them by the Catholic diocese of Guntur. Today it has 30 institutions rendering services throughout Andhra Pradesh.

Bosco Seva Kendra was launched by the Province of St.Joseph, Hyderabad soon after its erection in 1992 "(earlier, Andhra Pradesh fell under the Salesian Province of Bangalore)" and officially registered on February 11th, 1993.

Vision & Mission

Vision

The Province envisions Bosco Seva Kendra as a developmental organization that will contribute towards the emancipation and empowerment of the rural poor of Andhra Pradesh by assisting them with the formation of sustainable, needs-based, participative projects with effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation based on christian principles.

Mission

BSK hopes to achieve its vision by guiding communities to formulate sustainable, needs-based and participative projects and to act as liaison between funding agencies and communities.

Activities

* Community-based development programmes for poverty eradication, long-term sustainable development, skills training and empowerment of women and communities
* Regular school enrollment of all children, giving priority to continuing education, re-enrollment of dropouts, and non-formal education for working children
* Eradication of bonded and child labour
* Rehabilitation of street and working children, as well as dropouts
* Vocational training for children and youth
* Career guidance and job placement services
* Camps and training programmes for children, youth, social workers and staff
* Health care programmes for women and children
* Lobbying and liaison with departments and governments
* Formation and organization of self help groups for women
* Micro credit financing
* Free legal aid
* Raising awareness through street theatre, puppetry and folk arts
* Networking with other NGO's
* NGO's training

Ongoing and Completed Programmes

* Making clean water and sanitation available to the poor tsunami victims living in 12 villages of the Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, with assistance from Bonn, Germany
* Creating a tsunami education programme (Starting of Anuragam Bridge Badi in 40 villages of Nellore, Prakasam, Krishna and East Godavari Districts) with the participation of Salesian Missions and Jugend Dritte Welt
* Medical camps in East Godavari District through the Christian Medical Centre, Pithapuram [The Christian Medical Centre, Pithapuram is a participating hospital under the Council of Christian Hospitals.] , medical insurance programme at Kothapatnam, and Vetapalam mandals of Prakasam district
* Career guidance and job placement cells (DHISHA) at Hyderabad and Vijayawada through MISEREOR, Germany
* PROGRAMME PROJECT with the support of DMOS-COMIDE, Belgium, an international agency, to reach out to 5 community based organizations, 5 technical institutions and 3 career guidance and job-placement centers

Management

BSK is headed by a Director who is reportable to the Development Commission of the Salesian Province of Hyderabad.

Director

Fr. Bellamkonda Sudhakar, an able administrator, is the present Director of BSK.

Development Commission

The Development Commission consists of the following members:

* Fr. Noel Maddhichetty, President (Provincial)
* Fr. Bellamkonda Sudhakar, Commission Delegate, Executive Director, Secretary
* Fr. Thekkekara Antony, Member
* Fr. Thomas Pallithanam, Member
* Fr. Salibindla Bala Showry, Member
* Fr. T. V. Thomas, Member
* Fr. M. S. Michael, Member

References

External links

* [http://www.boscosevakendra.org Bosco Seva Kendra - Salesian Province of St. Joseph, Hyderabad]

;Further reading
* cite journal
author=New Advent - Catholic Encyclopedia
title=St.Giovanni Melchior Bosco
month=October | year=2005
volume=
issue=
url = http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689d.htm
* cite journal
author=Salesian Province of Ireland
title=Don Bosco's "Preventive System"
year=
volume=
issue=
url = http://www.salesians.ie/about_prevsys.htm
* cite journal
author=Don Bosco Youth Centre and Hostel Inc., Australia
title=Salesians of Don Bosco
year=
volume=
issue=
url = http://www.donbosco.org.au/about_us.htm
format=Dead link|date=May 2008
* cite journal
author=Don Bosco Past Pupils Association Park Circus, Kolkata
title=About St.John Bosco
year=
volume=
issue=
url = http://www.dbpc.org/ABOUTDB.html
* cite journal
author=Salesian Province of Ireland
title=The Story of Don Bosco
year=
volume=
issue=
url = http://www.salesians.ie/about.htm