Initially, we had intended to undertake the socio-pastoral apostolate. But as the sisters visited the people and the women and children in the families, it was found that they lacked motivation in their life. Since most of the people were farmers and daily laborers, the parents would leave their children at home without anyone to monitor or care for them. We could see the children were left behind without adult supervision and in unhygienic situations.

On further study, it was found that the people lacked education and had no aspiration to reach a higher status in life. Some of them started requesting the sisters to give them education by starting an English medium school as there was no proper school in the vicinity. The only school that existed had more than 125 students in each class. Children were neither getting any care or attention nor was there any proper teaching. After several requests from the people of the locality as well as from the neighboring villages we decided to begin an educational institution to provide better quality education and help the new generation to come up in life and the society makes adequate socio-economic progress.

The Catholic people of the village are of Goan origin. They claim to be the descendants of St. Francis Xavier’s apostolic work. Those who migrated from Goa over the last 3 or 4 centuries made Bidi their permanent home. The parish of Bidi mission was under the archdiocese of Goa managed by the diocesan priests.

In the year 1888, Bidi was a full-fledged parish under which there were six sub-stations including Haliyal, Mangalwad, Alnavar, Kakkeri, Londa etc. In the year 1918 and 1919 the parish was shifted from Bidi to Nandgad by the Patriarch as the Catholic population there, was more than in Bidi. Hence the people of Nandgad demanded that Bidi should no longer be a parish and should be attached to Nandgad mission. Hence it was known as Bidi-Nandgad mission.