LOYOLA COLLEGE KERALA

Loyola Extension Services

Loyola Extension Services (LES) is the Resource cum Outreach Centre of Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum, with a rich legacy spanning 50 years. Before its formal establishment in 1986, LES initiated community action projects such as adult education and literacy campaigns. In the late 1980s, its community engagement spread wide across Kerala, including the Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP) in Malappuram. The success of interventions in urban slums like Pattom Kesavadasapuram eventually paved the way for "Kudumbasree", one of Kerala's greatest legacies in women's empowerment.

Today, LES has evolved into a multi-dimensional Resource Centre, Social Consultancy, and Multiversity engaged in various programmes and transformative initiatives such as:

Community Organisation & Field Interventions

Research & Consultancy

Training & Capacity Building

Counselling & Support (Childline, ACA, LFCC)

Special Projects & Interdisciplinary Studies

Involvements

TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING

Purpose-specific training programmes for professional social workers and local body representatives.

RESEARCH & CONSULTANCY

Social surveys, action research, feasibility studies, and project evaluations for agencies and NGOs.

FIELD INTERVENTIONS (ADS)

Facilitating guidance and support to field level action groups through participatory empowerment.

COUNSELLING CENTRES (LFCC & LSCC)

Counselling and guidance to individuals, families, school children, and college students in crisis.

ADOPTION CO-ORDINATING AGENCY

Providing information and guidance to prospective adoptive families relating to legal adoption.

CHILDLINE NODAL AGENCY

A 24-hour emergency nodal agency focusing on the relief and rehabilitation of children in distress.

SPECIAL PROJECTS & INSTITUTES

Innovative educational platforms, interdisciplinary research, and fellowships like GMF and IIS.

Loyola Extension Service