In the year 1962 Kripaon Ki Mata Leprosy Colony was started by the loving and compassionate efforts of Late Archbishop B. Evangelisti , Bishop of Meerut to settle a group of 28 homeless Leprosy patients on a vacant land of St. Francis Church, Dehra Dun, close to the cemetery at Nalapani Road. The Late Bishop of Meerut had arranged for a regular supply of food ration and built houses to shelter them. During the same year Miss Agnes Kunze of Munich, Germany a social worker joined to work as a resident care taker of the patients. A Dispensary was built, improvised with a good supply of medicines, equipments etc., for the health care, including facilities for daily dressing of chronic ulcerations of hands and feet of the inmates. Sr. Agnes Kunze, in the year 1965 had started thinking of ways and means to make use of the limited physical abilities of the patients aimed at a partial self-reliance. She decided upon hand-spinning on Kisan Charkhas. Mr. Pierre Reyniers of Paris, France had joined in 1967 to assist Sr. Agnes Kunze. In the year 1971, Sr Agnes Kunze had formed a Society in the name KKM Handweaving Society (Kuru Kshetr Mandal) and got it registered, a separate entity, which opened doors for other leprosy settlements also giving them a meaningful life through hand-weaving occupation.