goal Provide social assistance services for children, adolescents and their families with quality and ethics in order to ensure its sustainability. Statutory purpose To receive and assist orphans and abandoned children, from two years old to turn 18; providing them with educational, professional, moral and civic, admitting his tenure up to 21 years if the situation so requires; Admitting and shelter in an emergency, under whose homes are disorganized as to not offer them (those responsible) moral and material support, subject to the limitations set forth in the preceding paragraph; Assist and guide families of admitted minors (provided they are in a state of poverty and acute breakdown), aiming its strengthening and maintenance and / or reintegration in the family; and Maintain school childhood education for care of children assisted by the House and the local community (meeting No. 388 of the Executive Council of 09/03/05).