This unit has 18 full time social workers who carry very heavy responsibilities. All are busily engaged in surveys in slums, paying school fees for those being educated through the sponsorship programmes, free wheelchair distribution to crippled people, distribution to fortnightly rations for over 600 poor families, including milk powder, leprosy rehabilitation and rural development programmes in villages on the border of Andra Pradesh and Kasur in Mysore state. They rehabilitate families living on the street, pay rents for poor people and direct the poor and needy for medical treatment.