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Everyone has a dream! The poor and underprivileged don't have the opportunity to fulfill their
dreams. In a society torn by inequality and injustice, Sahaara seeks to draw out the dreams
em-bedded in the hearts and lives of the underprivileged and creates avenues for the fulfillment
of those dream. Sahaara gifts dreams to the child victimized in a perilous red light area, to her
trafficked mother benumbed by sexual violence, to the languishing prisoner, to the child invisible
behind high walls of the observation homes, to the orphan on the street, to the stick- tapping visually
challenged woman on the speeding train, to the slum child who is written off to be a child labourer
and perseveres in the enkindling of dying dreams all across Mumbai.
 
Sahaara believes that a helping hand of love and a continuum of services and opportunities is
the key to transforming the dreams of the innumerable poor into realities.
 
‘Sahaara Charitable Society’ was established and registered with the Charity Commissioner in
1994.The project started with work among the street children at Churchgate station in Mumbai.
Today with the strength of 80 full time staff, under the leadership of Mr. Arthur Thangiah, and other
scores of volunteers, Sahaara looks after orphans, teaches street kids in 3 places, runs 10
Balwadis for slum children (Balwadis are non-formal pre-primary schools), ministers to prisoners
in 6 prisons, ministers to children from 7 Remand Homes (home for Juvenile prisoners), does
computer training for prisoners in 4 prisons, runs 6 drop in centers for commercial sex workers
(CSW's), ministers to eunuchs, conducts adult literacy classes, ministers to school drop outs,
ministers to the visually challenged, and to those affected by Hanson’s disease (lepers). Sahaara
also runs a half-way home for ex-prisoners, ex-CSW workers and the visually challenged.
 
Vision Statement - Gifting Dreams!
 
Mission - To improve the quality of life of the underprivileged through relationship building,
care services, rehabilitation and integration into society.
Members Of Managing Committee
 Arthur Thangiah
( Chairman )		  Santosh Johny
 ( Hon. Secretary ) 
 K.X. Selvan
 ( Hon. Treasurer ) 		 Kumresh Pekayare
( Jt. Hon. Secretary )
 Steven Abraham
( In- Charge- Human Resources )		   Joemon Joseph  
( Managing Committee Member )
 Mathew Depenha
(  Managing Committee Member )
   Naren Thapa
(  Managing Committee Member )
  Darryl Collins  
( Managing Committee Member )

Mobis Phlipose  

( Managing Committee Member )
 
 Stanley Mehta  
( Managing Committee Member )
 
 
 
Celebration at Sharan Sthan,
 a  safe  house  for
many  such  destitute  women.
             
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