No buildings or structures. Classes are mostly held under trees. An educated socially oriented local youth is chosen as a teacher. FTS gives him an honorarium and also provides teaching aids such as blackboards, pencils, slates, paper, bools, etc.
Education also involves training in traditional sports and culture.
The other most important need of Vanavasis is health-care. Facilities for treatment of their common ailments are virtually non-existent. To meet this very basic need, FTS provides one doctor for every cluster of 30 villages and equips him with a cycle or a motorcycle, medicines etc. He visits 6 to 8 villages a day so that every village is covered once a week. By 1992-93, the number of villages covered went upto 700.