Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre is an organ of the Don Bosco Group of Institutions of Chennai which has a hundred years history and has won accolades amongst the public for its educational and moral standards besides reaching out to the lowest strata of the society by catering to Orphans, Semi-Orphans, Lepers, Beggars, Destitute and the aged besides caring for their children.

Reverend Father Orpheus Mantovani, a Salesian Priest from Italy, had the spirit, the zeal and the dreams of helping the poorest of the poor. His dream came true when the Archbishop Louis Mathias of Madras – Myalpore asked Father Mantovani, who was at the time parish priest of Tambaram, to survey Vyasarpadi to form a new parish. After studying the place, in 1964, on the feast of Immaculate Conception he purchased the land that was a dumping ground for cinders. He was moved by the poverty of the people and the pitiful condition of the lepers. He converted his land into an amazing living space. The work was officially inaugurated on 2, Feb 1965. Little by little the Centre became an amazing school, a welfare centre, a boarding school and an aged home. The Lepers were shifted to Pope John’s Garden, a beautiful place 8 km away from the Centre. Nowadays this leprosy of Chennai is still part of the Beatitudes Welfare Centre, the sisters of sisters of St. Charles Borromeo are managing Pope John's garden.

Besides these the Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre has the unique distinction of having close ties with various Government Agencies for a wide-variety of Women Empowerment Projects, Self-Help Groups, Women's Training Centres, Elementary-High-Transit & Night Schools, Camillus & Memisa Dispensaries, Aged Homes for the Destitute, Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, Juvenile Home for Special Children, Child care Centre, etc. In recognition of our services we have also been bestowed the 1995 National Award of India for the Welfare of the Handicapped and the 1998 Tamil Nadu State Award for the Welfare of the disabled.

The Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre has a number of welfare projects for the Leprosy patients, their children, the elderly, handicapped persons and poor slum dwellers. Ever since its inception in 1965 it has catered to several thousands of needy people.

The welfare programmes in the centre aim to improve the lives of the poor people. Our programmes include all age groups, from the cradle to the grave. HELP [Helps – Educates – Liberates - Protects] is given to everyone irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
The Don Bosco Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre is unique in India because it offers an enormous variety of activities, it is taking care of everybody: children, young people, lepers but also babies, aged people, women, men that need help. Because every single person matters, the Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre takes care of every single person as much as it can, thanks to the gracious help of our generous donators.

The Don Bosco Beatitudes Social Welfare Centre is in constant evolution, a lot of projects are in progress in order to help more and more people.