It is headquartered at the Casa de Divorciadas, an 18th-century building in the historic centre of Lima.

[3] It was founded on June 12, 1834, through a Supreme Decree of General Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada, provisional president of Peru.

[4] In 2009, it became a public organisation directly attached to the Ministry of Women and Social Development, after ceasing to be a subsidiary of the National Comprehensive Program for Family Welfare (INABIF) of the same ministry; and later in 2011 it became administered by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, after the approval of the Annual Plan for Transfers of Sectoral Competencies to Regional and Local Governments made in 2007.

In which it extends to 553 housed in different care centers (175 for minors in the Puericultorio Perez Aranibar and 378 older adults).

[5] It houses around 350 older adults, all of them totally destitute and extremely poor, distributed among 60% men and 40% women.