The brothers are in the diocese of Sivegengai since 1986. You have opened the school where we work, the St. James Higher Secondary School, which includes boys and girls, now about 1300, from ten to seventeen, who live in Suranam and thirty-five villages.
Since their arrival, the level of literacy and 'increased from 12% to 48%, and the project or dream' up to 70% for 2015.
The students get to school on foot or by bicycle along with six to twenty kilometers.
villages inhabited by the boys and girls are clusters of homes ... mostly huts ', which often do not get electricity, and when' this blows very often, even daily.
For this reason, and because 'their parents frequently are unable to assist them, the brothers have decided to identify and organize in every village, an "after school", a space and time, from 18 to 20, in which students home from school can come together to do their homework, a place that is fitted with electric light and is assigned a teacher paid by the brothers, to help support and monitor the children.
The strong focus on the needs of the people of this area by the brothers and 'reciprocated by a visible tangible sense of duty by the children themselves to the study.
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