Hennur, Bangalore

Every childdeserves a placeto come home to.

Shalom Children's Home gives thirty children a bed, three meals, a school uniform and a family-and reaches fifty-seven more through tuition centres in the villages around us.

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Children call Shalom home

Boys and girls, aged six to eighteen

Learn at village tuition centres

After-school teaching, books and supplies

Years since the first promise

Made in Bangalore in 1978

We provide shelter, food, education and medical care.

Our work reaches past our own gate-into villages, where children who would otherwise fall behind get the teaching and the supplies they need to keep up. Every part of it is rooted in the same conviction: that a child given care, consistency and a chance will take it.

A day at Shalom

From the seven o’clock bus to the lights going down.

Children in school uniform with backpacks stepping onto a yellow school bus.

7:00 am

The bus comes early

Uniforms pressed, bags packed, hair tied. The school bus pulls up at the end of the road and the day begins.

Children queuing with plates at a serving hatch while a cook serves rice.

12:30 pm

Lunch at the long table

Rice and curry, cooked here in our own kitchen. Everyone queues, everyone eats, nobody goes without.

Children climbing a slide and play frame among trees.

4:00 pm

Homework, then the swings

Books first. Then the part of the day they have been waiting for since breakfast.

A long line of children spread across a green football pitch during a training drill.

5:30 pm

Football on the turf

Coaching sessions on a full-size pitch. For some of them it is the best hour of the week.

A doctor with a stethoscope seated at a desk of medical records while a child is measured.

Every month

The doctor visits

Regular check-up camps mean small problems are caught early, and nobody's health quietly slips.

Children performing on a red carpet stage under strings of fairy lights and coloured drapes.

And sometimes

There is a stage, and lights

Independence Day, birthdays, festivals. Reasons to dress up, perform, and be applauded.

What we actually do, day to day.

Six programmes, one aim: that a child who arrives here leaves with an education and somewhere to stand.

A place to call home

Residential care for thirty boys and girls, aged six to eighteen.

School, every single day

Fees, uniforms, books-and a bus that comes every morning.

Three meals, cooked here

Proper food, every day, prepared in our own kitchen.

It started with a promise nobody heard.

When Samuel P. G. arrived in Bangalore in 1978, he met children living on the street-hungry, unwell, and entirely on their own. He had nothing to give them at the time.

What he had instead was a conviction that would not leave him alone: that one day he would be the help those children needed. He made that promise quietly, and then spent decades keeping it.

Samuel P. G.-Founder

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The children need more than money.

When we asked the home what it needs most, the first answer was not a number. It was people-turning up, staying in touch, and telling someone else about this place.

Come and spend time
The thing the home asks for most is not money. It is people who turn up.
Organise a donation drive
Run a collection where you already are-at work, at college, or on your street.
Sponsor a child
Cover the cost of one child's schooling, meals and care through the year.
Give directly
Contributions go to school fees, food, medical care and the village centres.

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