Salaam Baalak Trust – Mumbai opened its first center in 1989 as a result of the film, Salaam Bombay!, by Mira Nair, Director. In the last twenty years, the Trust has helped thousands of children come off the streets and into a safe and nurturing environment. Today SBT provides a holistic safety net of services catering to the individual needs of street children in Mumbai, covering the entire area of child development from physical and medical needs to encompassing the educational, creative, cognitive, social and vocational needs of the children.

Beginning in 2010, ALF has committed to funding three additional staff that will bring more professional expertise to all centers and projects further empowering SBT in their efforts to mainstream street children into productive adults.

In November, Salaam Baalak Trust crossed over the 600 children mark and are proud to say more than 86% are attending school regularly and doing well! In July, and for the first time, we had five girls start college and many 10th standard graduates have entered various job training programs through our Career Project, our collaboration with Four Seasons or other job training partnerships. We are continuing to develop our extra curricular activities and have added a professional football trainer for our boy’s team, weekly dance classes and a four-day camp to Goa for our Sholapur kids. Our Community Awareness Project is working with hundreds of kids to legalize them for entrance into school next year.