The services of SCAD to education are enormous in magnitude assisting 17,000 village children of 250 Village schools and 36 pre-schools, through the village educational programmes. It provides education to 2,500 children in 70 Preschools (Balwadis) with nutritional and medical care and educational support. SCAD also established a residential school for Physically Challenged Children is functioning at SCAD, Cheranmahadevi Campus in Tirunelveli District where 90 children are being re-habilitated and another 900 children are covered under community-based rehabilitation. Keeping into growing number of child-labours in Tirunelveli region, SCAD has instituted a Special School for Child Labours at Melapalayam and Tharuvai– Tirunelveli District and founded a school for the Children of Saltpan Workers in Tuticorin District, educating about 300 children of poor Saltpan Workers. Both initiatives are moot out with the intention to mitigate the socio-economic problems pertaining to child labours.
SCAD believes in development of youth through education and training resulted in training of 25,000 youth under Modular Employability Skills and Mass Literacy Programs. It has been engaging in women empowerment through Skill cum Vocational Training programme such as tailoring, bags making embroidery and candle making units where 3,000 women have been benefited so far from this program. Having dedicated its services to the marginalized, SCAD runs a Special School for Gypsies (nomads) where 200 gypsy children are benefited from this school.