Bal Ashram was co-founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi and Ms. Sumedha Kailash in 1998 as a long-term rehabilitation centre, for children rescued from child labor, child slavery, and child trafficking. It was later on registered as Bal Ashram Trust in the year 2002, focusing on the expansion of a child-centric approach in Banjara Communities and remote villages of Rajasthan.