Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA)/(Child Welfare Home)
Orphaned and abandoned babies are looked after in this Child Welfare Home. As a matter of fact, our institute started in 1854, with this primary service. As on date 10 Infants are here.
Home for Destitute Children (HDC)/Cottage
Orphaned and deserted children are sheltered and educated in the four cottages in our campus. Each cottage consists of 25 children. Fifty boys and fifty girls are nurtured in this way.
Boys Home
Children in the age group of six to seventeen coming from very poor families, or from backward areas are educated and there are about 182 children in this home.
Girls Home
Children in the age group of six to seventeen coming from very poor families, or from socially backward areas are educated and there are about 128 children in this home.
Home for the Intellectually Disabled (Mentally Challenged Women)
Women above 14 years, who are mentally challenged, are admitted here and are cared. The present strength is 55.
Home for the Mentally Ill Women
Women above 14 years, who are mentally affected, are admitted here and are cared. The present strength is 30.
Home for Aged Women
Elderly women who have no one to look after them are taken care of in this home. The present strength is 42.
Home for Aged Men
Elderly men who have no one to look after them are taken care of in this home. The Present strength is 35.
Rescue Home
Young women who become unwed mothers due to violence or some other factors are sheltered and given protection in this home. The present strength is 1.
Following are the Residential home of our institute:
Sisters of St. Anne (SAT)
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne of Tiruchirappalli (SAT) was founded by a holy and pious widow Mother Annammal in 1858 with a unique purpose of uplifting the social status of the poor, weak, marginalized and destitute young women, particularly widows from the unethical clutches of the society. The Congregation, Sisters of St. Anne was canonically erected as a Diocesan Congregation in 1880 and elevated to Pontifical status in 1977. Now, it has grown into a worldwide organization of Religious women in the Catholic Church.
These sisters have been working since 1880 in St. Joseph's Charity Institute, Adaikalapuram. In the beginning, they worked in all sections of this Institute. But, now they are working in St. Mary's Middle school, St. Anne's Teacher Training Institute, St. Anne's Hostel and in its Church activities and also doing pastoral activities in its substation, Philominagar. Their charism is rooted and guided by Ignatian Spirituality.
Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (SHJ)
The Congregation of the sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thoothukudi, was founded by Rev. Fr. Francis Buisson SJ, a French Jesuit missionary on 14.06.1884. The original purpose of founding this congregation was to care for the destitute women, children and the challenged persons. In the year 1925 Rt. Rev. Bishop Francis Tiburtius Roche, the Bishop of Thoothukudi, recognized it as the diocesan congregation for the purpose of socio-pastoral and missionary activities in the mission areas of Thoothukudi Diocese.
Priests’ Quarters
There are four priests residing in the Institute, playing the different roles: Director for the Overall administration; Administrator to look after the Finance and Property Management; Spiritual Director to psycho-spiritually animate the needs of all the inmates; and Assistant Director to assist the Director and Administrator with regard to the functioning and wellbeing of the Institute. Every year we receive a seminarian under formation, sent for the field study and he will do everything possible and necessary in view of his future ministry as an ordained priest in the same diocese.
Workers’ Quarters
To serve in different sections of the Institute we need different professionals. So, we invite people from other places to come and serve here. To make their stay comfortable and their service more of quantitative and qualitative we arrange for their accommodation adjacent to our Institute. It helps such personnel to be with their respective families, simultaneously facilitating better service to the Institute.
