De La Salle Brothers, realizing the importance of personality development and family atmosphere for the deserving poor youth, have established a conducive residential centre for the boys in Boys Town. Initially the Brothers recruited the street boys found in Madurai and gave them food, clothes and shelter in this home. These boys lived in a cottage and later many cottages were built for them.

The Hostel Programme
The Hostel Programme provides home for destitute, parentless or abandoned boys. It aims to provide them with the things to which we feel each child has a right, namely a full and wholesome life in warm and happy surroundings. We vigorously avoid any form of institutionalism and keep regimentation to a minimum as we wish to give them the possibility of living a natural life in a normal family atmosphere.

Great care is taken with each entering children to orient them to their new family environment. The children live at our hostel but attend the school either in our schools or local schools and participate in community events just as the local children do.

The children have time allotted daily for work, study and prayers. In addition to the education they receive at the local school/our school, we conduct classes to aid them in their studies, to promote good values, hygiene, good manners and health awareness. We also focus on developing livelihood training which will aid them when they leave the hostel. Through the activities that they do, learn the rudiments of farming, animal husbandry, sericulture and mechanical repair.

We also promote inter-religious relationships among them. We make them to be responsible to themselves and to the community. They take part in the administration of their own affairs. Our hostel is for them, by them and of them.