As the people in this mission field were from socially and economically backward, Social welfare and development was a part of missionaries’ evangelization effort. It was an effort at redeeming the total man and his environment. So, the missionaries have been with the people in their struggle for survival and subsistence. This identification with the people is one of the reasons why the missionaries have been accepted by these poor people, though they were from different states. In all their efforts Jesus, the Original Eternal Missionary was their model. The missionaries presented Christ to the people as their liberator from the clutches of their miseries.

There was no specific planning at the beginning with regard to the social developmental activities. However, the planning was occasioned by circumstances or events that presented themselves. For example there came one day 7 boys from Jaggaram village, they Carmelite Directory of Telangana - Andhra Pradesh 2020 - 2023 came to stay at the premises of the parish house. They had provisions for 15 days. On enquiry fathers were told that in their village there was no school. Hence the Parish Priest has asked them to come and stay with him and that he would provide one meal perday. And for the rest, they have to bring provisions from their houses.Further a certain catechist told the fathers that there were many villages where there were no schools. And in fact this was true. This occasioned the missionaries to plan a charity home in each parish to which they could bring children from villages where there were no educational facilities.

The same was the case behind the decision to have dispensaries and convents in the each parish. In one of his letter of December 5th, 1971, Fr. Bernadine writes: “some time ago when I went to say Mass at Reddipalem, one of our outstation, I was surprised to see the Taluk Congress President, the Panchayat President, the Co- opera- tive Society President, some other officials of the Taluk head quarters Burgampad and people of Reddipalem coming to request me to build an hospital for them. They have made the same request to the Bishop last year. Now they promised to give two acres of land free of cost. Since the Bishop also was here he told them that I would do something for the realization of their desire. This request occasioned us to assess the medical need of the locality and to plan out and act immediately”.

In the question of planning for the mission, the pioneers did not have any blue print to be executed. This is a naked truth with regard to the establishment of the leper colony at Kothagudem. A chance encounter of 25 lepers in the church premises made the fathers visit the lepers clustered and living together in different places. It was Carmelite Directory of Telangana - Andhra Pradesh 2020 - 2023 the desire to reinvest in them the lost human dignity and to beautify in them the disfigured figure of Christ they carry, that made the missionaries surmount all obstacles in establishing the Karunambika Lean Life Center (K.L.L.C) where they would be cared not as lepers but as brothers and sisters in Christ.

The establishment of a job oriented training centre was a simple corollary of the establishment of the various charity homes in our mission. Once the boys have passed 10th standard, what would be their future? This made the missionaries to think of the establish- ment of a job oriented training entre called the Mount Carmel Boys Town I.T.I, at New Palvoncha.
The net result of our involvement in these activities was crowning invitations from different villages to share with the people the good news of Christ which made them human persons. But this net result was not an aftermath of activities but a concomitant entity of our involvement.