A Mar Thoma Church ministry transforming lives since 1994. Navjeevan Centre serves Mumbai's most vulnerable—children and women from red-light areas and rag-picking communities. Through residential care, quality education, vocational training, and holistic support, we're breaking cycles of exploitation and poverty, one life at a time.
30+
Years serving since 1994
600+
Families supported annually through Rag Pickers Project
100
Children in residential care at Navjeevan Village (Govt. Licensed CCI)
Nursery-Grade 10
Navjyoti School (Recognised by State Board of Maharashtra)
2-3 million+
sex workers in India (estimated)
Thousands
of children in red-light areas face exploitation risks
5-15x higher
HIV prevalence among sex workers vs general population
Without intervention
children face risk of exploitation and poverty cycles
Over the last 25 years Navjeevan Centre has made a huge impact in the lives of many children and their families. It provides a ray of hope to a better life by empowerment of the women and their children and advocating and campaigning for the rights of these underprivileged women and their children.
Children in Red light area child care centres
Women (Commercial Sex Workers) impacted
Sex workers children through Navjeevan Residential Care Program
Women counselled
