About Us

Integrated Youth Development Centre (IYDC) was coordinating all the youth activities of the Salesians of Don Bosco till the date. In 2021 the name Don Bosco Youth Services was coined and started to coordinate the activities under this title. Don Bosco Youth Services coordinates its activities all over Kerala under three categories.

Don Bosco Youth Centres

Every Salesian community has a youth centre attached to it. It is a place where young people of the neighbourhood can come together. Every Youth Centre/Oratory is defined as a home, parish, school and playground. There are 24 youth centres in Kerala.

Integrated Youth Development Centre

It is a Salesian training centre for the youth, youth animators and all those who are involved with the youth. It provides programmes, services and facilities for the total development of the young and training for educators and animators in youth ministry. The centre organises various activities addressing to the need of the time.

Don Bosco Youth Movement (DBYM)

It is a movement of young people who are following the spirituality of Don Bosco for the transformation of the Society. The moment is present among the higher secondary school students and the college students. It is multi-religious in nature.

WHO WE ARE

We make the best for all our youth
over 37 years.

We provide programmes, services and facilities for the total development of the young and training for educators and animators in youth ministry.
This was the realization of a dream to cater to the ever-growing demand for youth animation programmes for parishes, educational institutions and formation centres in Kerala. Our youth animation team reaches out to all categories of the youth through carefully designed and skillfully executed programmes leading to the integral growth and development of young minds.

MISSION

To help adolescents, the youth and those who work with the youth to have a professional updation by clarifying their vision and ideals, healing inner wounds and blocks and by finding new strength and meaning for their onward journey. We reach out to schools, colleges, parishes, youth groups, seminaries, formation houses and to every youth and those who wish to work with the young; both in our centres and in your own institutions for retreats, seminars, camps, classes and training programmes. We reach out to schools, colleges, parishes, youth groups, seminaries, formation houses and to every youth and those who wish to work with the young; both in our centres and in your own institutions for retreats, seminars, camps, classes and training programmes.

VISION

Better Self, Better World

OUR STYLE

The Don Bosco Way

WE EDUCATE

Through Retreats, Camps & more

OUR OBJECTIVES

To be an agent of social transformation through education and training, especially of youth and children.
To set up institutional and non-institutional services for the development of youth and children.
To organize and offer various training programmes and professional courses in human development in physical, recreational, social, psychological, educational, moral and cultural sectors for multiple durations.
To organize national and international workshops and conventions.
To hold, arrange and organize meetings, lectures, talks, discussions, study circles, seminars, symposiums, conferences, competitions, research and study visits, exhibitions, debates, audiovisual programmes and other training programmes on topics related to the empowerment of youth and children.
To organize programmes for promoting national integration, peace and harmony, cultural advancement etc.
To facilitate training in sports, music, theatre, art and aesthetics.
To further ecological sensitivity, environment protection and agricultural development.
To organize groups and movements, especially of youth and children, in order to facilitate their development as mature individuals and responsible citizens.

To organize developmental programmes for gender equality and women empowerment.
To start, establish, equip and run youth centres, schools and institutes of higher education and training of youth, and to promote the development of socio- economic projects and activities for the benefit of general public with particular focus on the socially and economically marginalized people in India.
To offer, organize and facilitate psychological services, career guidance and vocational training in institutional and non-institutional settings.
To produce, publish, circulate and distribute literature, audio-visual aids in electronic media etc.
To promote holistic health and hygiene by awareness programmes, medical camps and training in alternate healing techniques etc.
To collaborate and network with various government agencies, NGOs and research centres for joint advocacy to better impact the lives of the marginalized people, youth and children in difficult situations; for promoting laws and their implementation in consonance with the rights of the marginalized people and the youth.