The long-cherished dream of Rev. Fr. T. Balaiah to have a mission for the tribals in the forest of Bhadrachalam became a reality in June 1992. Most Rev. M. Joji, Bishop of Khammam at that time, blessed the mission and Fr. A.X.J. Bosco SJ, the then Jesuit Provincial, inaugurated the tribal mission in a rented house in Edugurrallapally, Chintoor Mandal, Khammam District. Fr. T. Balaswamy and Scholastics Raju and V.S. George (Brothers in religious training then) formed the pioneering team of the tribal mission. In 1994, the people of Katukapally gave 9 acres of land and invited the team to begin their activities there. Thus, LITDS was shifted to Katukapally in June 1994. The Rev. Sisters of St. Ann of Luzern joined LITDS to take up the medical programme in August 1994. The educational programme began in a small thatched shed with 35 boarders in June 1995. The Sisters went around the villages distributing medicines to the sick tribes from around 55 villages. Though the tribes ran away from them in the initial stages, the love and compassion of the Sisters won the hearts of the tribes slowly...