- To prepare underprivileged children and youngsters for life, offering a home, food, health, education and, above anything else, a positive view on life.
- To offer a substitute family and not a transit home, Recanto São Francisco provides basic education to the young until they are ready for the world.
- The children are integrated in a family environment, where they can assimilate the essential values and principles of a good upbringing and education. More than giving an education and a profession, the important thing for them is to acquire self-esteem and a love for life, enough for them to become the instrument of their own change and to create conditions to grow in their own happiness.
- To transform victims into integrated citizens.
