Ms. Shirin Barucha

Bal Asha Trust

Bal Asha Trust is a Mumbai-based organisation caring for abandoned and vulnerable children through a children's home, adoption services, a child development centre, education sponsorship and nutrition programmes. It is among the few Indian NGOs specialising in placing children with special needs into adoptive families.

Bal Asha Trust reports the following, on its own site:

• 4,340 children benefited
• 977 children adopted
• 329 children reunited with their families
• 1,02,325 meals served yearly