WPM activists Avtar Singh, Jagat Ram Shastri, Dr Jaswant Singh and Dr Surindar Suri encouraged the children with gifts of notebooks, pencils, crayons and easy-to-read books. In the 10 years of World Peace Mission literacy work, more than 1,000 children have been taught to read and write and out of these it has been possible to get about 100 admitted to regular government schools.

Since 1993, 19 literacy centres have been set up wherever large concentrations of labourers were found. At present five centres are running with the help of 40 volunteers.