A formidable network of services, as astounding for its variety and reach as for its impact! Look at the figures: 354 Street Presences, 100 Shelter Homes, 117 Children’s Homes, 233 Street Education Centres, 63 Vocational Training Centres, 29 Advocacy Units, 35 Missing Child Search Units, 26 24-Hour Childline Centres, and a host of other projects across 72 cities and towns – undeniably the most vigorous expression of Salesian India’s concern for the ‘Young at Risk’, the most neglected and vulnerable section of the country’s youth. The expression ‘Young at Risk’ (YaR) embraces children and young people whose safety, growth and development are put at risk through indifference and neglect on the part of parents as well as society. Generally, the term refers to runaway children, school dropouts, rag-pickers, street children, child workers, young drug addicts, orphans; those abandoned, abused or exploited; refugee-children, victims of war, violence and calamities.