SNEHALAYA (House of love) is a social service program for the care and rehabilitation of children in distress in the city of Guwahati. It is an out-reach program run by the Don Bosco Society. Snehalaya is committed to build a child-friendly city where even the poorest of the poor children enjoy their rights to survival, protection, development and participation. Officially launched on August 16, 2000, Snehalaya was a millennium gift to the city of Guwahati, and a birthday-gift to St. John Bosco, the great educator saint of the 19th century.