El Buen Samaritano provides comprehensive care to over 60 children and their families.  This includes providing individual, family and group guidance on the various problems they face every day such as relationship issues, barriers to educational achievement, disengaged communities, and inadequate housing.  Spiritual and moral values are also emphasized when counseling families and individuals. 

One of the most pressing issues these families face is a lack of fathers present in the household, often due to alcoholism.  This not only deprives families of a positive male role model, it also often leaves them financially destitute.  

Employment in Guatemala occurs in two forms: official or unofficial. Official employment occurs through registered businesses and government jobs.  These positions have a minimum wage and have legal protection against employee abuse, which was legislated due to Guatemala’s long history of brutal indentured servitude to the landowners. Unofficial employment makes up the majority of Guatemalan jobs and is not subject to any minimum wage or other worker protections.  In the families that attend the center, most of the women have inconsistent employment doing household work such as cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry for the wealthier families in the nearby city of Antigua.  Monthly income is usually between 600-1200 quetzales (85-$170), about half of which usually goes to rent. Unofficial work often leaves families in unstable financial situations with no government safety nets. Families are commonly forced to choose between necessities, and these choices affect the children most directly. The community center's mission is to provide stability that the children may lack at home while giving them tools to create a better future.