Children in Pahanganj, New Delhi

Volunteership in Apna Ghar (Feb-April, August-Sept 2011)

I worked as a volunteer in Apna Ghar for approximately four months. Both times I focused on “Teaching English“ to the kids in a non-formal way, whereas I combined this activity with arts and crafts in my second volunteership. When I saw the kids´ welcoming attitude towards all of the volunteers, I was really surprised. … Read more

November 2011

November 2011 was again a busy month for us…   The team participated in the making of SBT documentary by Starkey Hearing Foundation Rekha (from Arushi home for girls) joined the team. Presently she is under training and hopefully will soon be our first City walk girl guide The guides attended the First Aid training … Read more

Diana’s testimonial

Words can hardly express the time I have spend with the kids at the Salaam Balaak Trust in New Delhi. It was the best way to start my travel time in India. Never having been in India before, I felt at home with the other volunteers at the volunteers flat and with the SBT coordinator … Read more

Monthly report of July 2011

On 15th July, Shahadutt went to US to start a new chapter of his life. He will be studying Business management for a year in Wisconsin.  The guides were invited by Gap Adventures (Worldwide Small Group Adventures, Safaris & Expeditions) to their Tour Leader’s training session in Pushkar, Ajmer (Rajasthan). Iqbal and Tariq participated in it and besides getting a good … Read more

Monthly report June 2011

- The most awaited news of the year - Shahadutt got selected for US scholarship, to study Business management for a year in Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC). His visa is in process and may soon fly…. – Developed partnership with Greaves Travels for exclusive walks. – City walk team did INTACH Heritage Walk in Chandni Chowk as part … Read more

Arushi Girls home – a Salaam Baalak Trust Home.

It is to my good friend Celia Marsh from Switzerland that I owe this initiative as she very kindly and generously supplied the money for it and I put it into operation. I visited Arushi girls home sometime last year and was struck at how well organized it was and how the girls supported one another. I … Read more

monthly report April 2011

April 2011 Since April was quite a hot month, we had less number of guests as compared to last month, -  On 15th April, City Walk team visited Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Saket, where we were given a guided tour of the museum and got to understand the extra ordinary works done by … Read more

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Monthly report for February

Dear All, Feb. month was the busiest ever we had,even though there were only 28 days in this month! We had the maximum number of people in the walk so far – 456 people in 44 walks conducted (the last highest was 371 in Nov) Satender did 21 walks with 284 people, Shahadutt did 13 … Read more

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Somewhere between Arushi & City Walk.

Waking up in the mornings in my bed in Germany, I sometimes still can’t believe that I will not walk through busy Pahar Ganj to get to the SBT head office or catch my bus to Arushi. I spent almost three months in Delhi and with SBT – three months that touched and moved me … Read more

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Working in Apna Ghar…

After traveling in India for 3 weeks I decided I wanted to stay on one place and started looking for volunteer work. After searching for NGO’s all over India it was nice to find that Salaam Baalak Trust was located just around the corner from the hotel I was staying! After joining the City Walk … Read more

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