At the request of CMI Fathers on 26 October 1986 we took over the St. Vincent Providence Home, an Institution for the aged destitute which was under their ownership in their own campus. The plot of 1.5 acres of land around it was also given to us free of cost. Srs. Bibiana (Superior) Catherine and Maria Kochumadam were the pioneer members of the Community of this first SD house in Pala. The Home is an oasis for the poor abandoned people in the desert of rejection and loneliness. Since the building was 60 years old, in 1915 we reconstructed the building more spaciously and with better facilities, restructuring it so as to make a part of it also a retirement home for our own sick and aged sisters. The Providence Home can accommodate 60 persons, both men and women. Situated at the heart of the town near the KSRTC bus stand, this house is also an abode for our Sisters employed in the schools in the vicinity of Pala. We ever remember with gratitude this great generosity of the CMI Fathers that gave SD an access to the Pala diocese.