The rural Chengena Mission consists of 15 villages mostly inhabited by people belonging to Wandendule tribe.  Ever since the MST has taken up this Mission, the missionaries here have been concentrating their time and efforts for the integral development of these villages. It is a matter of joy and satisfaction to see the sad and pathetic living situations of the people are changing. Now most of the children attend school, the youth are competent to get government or private jobs. In order to work with us the OSF, Missionary Sisters are working with us. We aim at the holistic development of the people here in Chengena Mission by providing all the possible assistance for the social upliftment in this mission territory. We take care of the education, and healthcare of these poor people. We do attend to their better education by finding financial support and scholarships for the poor children, facilitating their admission into schools and hostels, and organizing evening tuitions in the villages for the weaker students, facilitating the purchase of study materials like text books, note books and so on. Though we want to impart quality education to all the poor villages, and provide basic health care facilities, on account of the financial constraints, we are not able to attend to all their needs.  We need to depend on donor agencies for financial assistance to materialize supporting projects for the villagers. But still MST missionaries are doing the best possible services to them.

People in these villages find their livelihood through farming.  The people in Chengena Mission live in the un-developed region of the country where electricity is not facilitated in the villages, also still they need to depend on the unorganized muddy roads here. They find their livelihood through cultivating Maize, Soya Bean and Sunflower depending only on the seasonal rain from Jan – April. This is the only time they can cultivate but at the same time they use the traditional means of cultivation here, resulting less yield in the harvest. So, every half a year they are in extreme scarcity for food. Thereby, MST is trying to reach out to all these 15 villages to assist them in their needy times. We are organizing Self Help women Groups in these villages to stabilize them. We have active youth groups in those villages where we are giving them training in agriculture and raring live-stocks. They are organized to have the different micro financing programmes like raring Bees, fish farming, piggeries and poultry etc. in their villages. We are taking up the challenges of reaching out to them occasionally though the means of reaching to those villages are hectic with the tough roads.