Our Orphanage is administered by the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of Nossa Senhora do Bom Conselho. Sister Maria Mabel de Luna Melo is the Executive Director and she has the help of Sisters Dalvanira, Maria do Carmo, Rejane and Veronica. In addition to the Sisters, our Orphanage counts on the help of volunteers and collaborators, among others.

The Congregation is originally from the interior of Pernambuco state, in northeast Brazil. It was founded in 1853, by Frei Caetano de Messina.

The founding of the Congregation occurred by the blowing of the Holy Spirit, which lay seed upon the dry lands of Pernambuco, in the old city of Papacaça, when a young friar, Caetano de Messina, raised a monument in name of youth education. He confided the mission to the young ladies Tereza de Jesus Vilela Teixeira, Natália Gomes Brasileiro, Izabel Gomes Brasileiro and Maria de Jesus Camello. They were the first live stones that help build this great piece of human work, at that time in the city known as Papacaça, today the city of Bom Conselho.