Susithodaya Child Development Center is the core institution of St. Vincent’s Home, providing a safe, structured environment for children facing early life challenges. Our mission is to equip these young people with essential life skills, education, and the integral formation needed to face the future with courage and determination.

Its history stretches back to 1881, when the Italian missionary Fr. Luigi Piccinelli founded a Boys’ Orphanage in Maggona. The Oblate Missionaries, who took over the institution from Fr. Piccinelli, began a new chapter in 1895, when they established a Reformatory School for juvenile offenders. The Reformatory was later renamed the ‘Approved School’ in 1956 and then formally given the name ‘Susithodaya’ in 1970.

Today, we have successfully merged the former Orphanage and the Reformatory under the single banner of ‘Susithodaya Child Development Center’. We provide a quality life for children who have lost parental love, those from poor and problematic family backgrounds, and those referred by the courts or the Probation Department. While giving priority to academic education, we foster a spirit of brotherhood, embracing all children equally regardless of religious or racial background.