The Samithy was confronting a serious problem in the town with mental patients wandering through the street uncared for. Some of them were treated at the local hospital but, being destitutes, they returned to streets once again, this time more sick than before. The board of Trustees gathering enough of inner strength, ventured into a difficult task of sheltering and rehabilitating such patients. A property with two buildings at Mayyanad in Kollam District was bought for the purpose and 16th August 1998 an institution for the mentally depressed persons was inaugurated. Starting with seven male patients the number of inmates kept going higher day by day. We have now 100 such patients both male & female. With our love, care, diet and medical treatment most of the patients show improvement. The patients who are cured completely are returned to their home to the delight of their relatives. Shelter home is named S S Samithy.

At the district hospital, Kollam, more than 250 poor destitute patients are given food every day without fail. At Mayyanad Abhayakendram, about 250 men, women and children of all age groups are given shelter and proper care. Among them are the physically and mentally handicapped, the deaf, dumb, blind, mentally retarded. Most of them were wandering in public places. Their families or relatives left them to the mercy of the streets and some of them wandered without any idea of their personality or identity. When they regained their mental balance and are physically fit, some of them revealed their true identity and passed on enough information about their dear and near ones. Then from this 'home away from home' we take them back to their first home.