Don Bosco Navajeevan (DBNJ), Warangal, actively promotes parent engagement as a foundation for children’s safety, education, and overall development. Regular parent meetings, home visits, and counselling sessions are conducted across urban slums and vulnerable settlements in the Warangal tri-cities to strengthen parents’ understanding of child rights, positive parenting, education continuity, health, and protection. These interactions help parents become informed and responsible stakeholders in their children’s growth.

To sustain community-led protection, DBNJ facilitates caring community groups that include auto drivers, street vendors, daily wage labourers, women’s groups, youth volunteers, teachers, and local leaders. These groups act as the first line of support to identify and respond to risks such as school dropouts, child labour, abuse, neglect, and unsafe migration. Alongside this, awareness programmes on child protection, health, nutrition, mental wellbeing, safe migration, and access to government schemes are conducted through community meetings, street plays, campaigns, and peer-led initiatives.

Through consistent urban slum outreach, DBNJ works in the most marginalized pockets of the Warangal tri-cities, ensuring no child or family is left behind. The programme focuses on developing knowledge-based communities, where families are aware of their rights, services, and responsibilities. By adding more trained volunteers and expanding the community network, DBNJ strengthens outreach to new and emerging vulnerable areas.

This community-driven approach supports DBNJ’s long-term vision of a “Child-Friendly Warangal”, where proven models of care, protection, and participation are replicated from one vulnerable slum or area to another. As communities become empowered and interconnected, this journey contributes to transforming the district into a safer, more inclusive, and child-centred space for all children.