- The current centre in Langata has a capacity to house between twenty to twenty-five children. The future aim of Canadian Hearts and Hands is to expand the facility to house at least forty children.
- Children of various ages are gathered from the streets and are given a home-like environment. These children live on the streets and survive on their own means, mostly by begging or petty theft. Many of them are orphans whose parents have died from AIDS or other diseases. Some end up on the street because their parents could no longer afford to raise them.
- Once children are placed in the centre, they are rehabilitated and given a basic education. Many of them lack the social skills that children who live in normal communal circumstances are exposed to. They are taught basic skills like preparing meals, basic hygiene and proper behaviour.
- Missionaries also taught basic Math and English to older children.
- After the initial period of adjustment, the children are moved to a larger facility also staffed by the Salesians and are enrolled in school. Those who complete high school eventually are apprenticed to learn a trade.
