[3] Its stated aim is to give working children help to escape from extreme poverty and to gain control of their own lives.

[4] CMT states its approach to achieving this is by providing education for the working children and for their families, together with meals, health services, housing assistance, loans to start up microbusinesses, and cultural enhancement.

In 1981, the opening of a second Working Boys' Center in northwest Quito, at Cotocollao, resulted in the extension of services to 400 families.

[9][10] At a 2015 speaking appearance at the center, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa acknowledged its help in reducing child labor over the past eight years from over 16% to under 3%.

[14] The center has offered a degree in Automotive Mechanics[15] and was declared by the Ministries of Education and Labor the "best technical school in the nation" in 1997 and 2002.