Mahila Panchayat

    Voice against 
    female feticide

    Self Help Groups 

    Youth Brigade

Deenbandhu 
    Development Centre 

   Night Shelter

   Vocational Training
   for Women

   Health Intervention

   Children’s Study Centre 

ABOUT US

Greetings from Delhi Brotherhood Society! 

The Delhi Brotherhood Society has its origin from the Cambridge Brotherhood, where as small number of English priests set out to Delhi in 1887 with the aim of promoting higher education. They set out for India from Cambridge in England under the inspiration of Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott in 1877. Being academicians their intention was to start an educational institution. This they did at delhi and St. Stephen’s College was established in 1881, which became known asthe “Star of the East”.

The members of the Brotherhood take a life vow to remain single without marriage whole life to serve the poor and under privileged. Since 1887, they have been involved in education program, vocational programme & health care programme for the poor, marginalized and weaker section.

One of its members, C.F. Andrews had earned the distinction of involving himself in trade union activities and in the independence movement of India. A close associate of, Mahatma Gandhi the Father of the Nation, the Mahatma honored Andrews with the title of Deenabandhu. It was the outstanding role of C.F. Andrews in the emancipation of the poor and the exploited that started the Brotherhood off on its way to become more involved in the social problems in Delhi. In 1973, Cambridge Brotherhood was re-named as the Delhi Brotherhood Society and got officially registered under the registrars of the Society Act.

In 1973, a significant step was taken by the Brotherhood to extend itself in social concerns thereby beginning the most enormous task of social development in the slums of Delhi, especially in the Northeast area and at the Delhi-UP boarder at the eastern part of Delhi. An early initiative of DBS was to organize the leprosy patients to fight for their rights and to manage their affairs with economic independence. Presently more than 5 lakh people are benefiting in one or the other way from the organization.

The vision of the society is "to empower people, to create their own destiny'. DBS is committed to achieve this vision through its mission of providing Education, Health, Skill Training, Community Organization, Communication, Homes or Institutional Care to the underprivileged section of society.

Thanking you,

Fr. Solomon George,
Director, DBS