Anugraha Special School for Intellectually Challenged children was started in 1994, sensing this need of the locality. It was a humble beginning with four children in a small shed in the Convent compound. Gradually more children were coming seeking admission, and our own Sisters got trained and qualified as Special Educators. In 2000 the school was shifted to a spacious and well-built new building in the same compound, with an accommodation capacity for 100 children.  Children are given basic training in academic skills like listening, speaking reading, writing, drawing and daily living skills like table etiquette, taking food, wearing dress, toilet habits, playing, singing, dancing, doing simple manual works like  cleaning the room, cleaning vessels etc. Some simple vocational training also is given like mat making, basket making etc. Not everyone can do everything, so each child is given personal care and attention and is trained according to his capacity. Those who have some comprehension capacity are given special coaching to appear for the SSLC Examination according to the NIOS Scheme. The school has a good Sensory Room, a play park, a well-equipped Physiotherapy unit and a well-qualified and experienced Physiotherapist, able, efficient and dedicated. At present the strength of the School is 68 children, one Physiotherapist, 12 teachers and three non-teaching members of the staff. All our teachers are very committed, with a motherly care for the children. So far about 470 children have been trained in this Institution, and 10 children, helped by scribes for Examinations, have passed SSLC. in three batches.