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== Who benefits from the children's home? ==
'''Social Cases''' - young girls who are victims of social problems: abused children who have suffered mentally and physically, those who are lost, those whose character and behaviour causes problems in the family or society, those who refuse to go to school, those who run away from home, those who have problems with drugs, etc.<br>'''Penal Cases''' - girls who are awaiting trial.<br>
'''Home cases''' - young girls (or young boys) who need moral and financial support to enable them to continue their studies or apprenticeships and who remain with their families.
All Malagasy children who fall into one of these categories are taken in, with no discrimination as to faith or race or social class, but who agree to the conditions of education provided by the children's home.
== How do they arrive at the home? =='''Social Cases''' - parents or guardians of the child contact the social services who bring the case to the judges at the juvenile court who thereafter investigate the case and decide whether the child should be placed at the children's home.<br>'''Penal Cases''' - the judges at the juvenile court investigate the case and see whether a girl should be placed at the children's home while she waits for her court hearing, so that she can be protected and also so that she can be called for further investigation.
