One unique aspect of the program is that it is community based and services are offered free.
Members come from the small Christian communities.
They do not offer treatment, but care for the sick materially and spiritually. More than a hundred members visit the sick, in pairs, in three sprawling parishes in Mombasa West. The project director is Brother John Mullen, a Maryknoll missionary, assisted by several Sisters of St. Joseph and Mrs. Elizabeth Mugo, a pioneer member and social worker of long standing, who assists with the training of new volunteers. The program has done very well in all the parishes where it has been implemented, since its inception in 1996 in Bomu parish. With an initial 25 volunteers serving a similar number of patients, the programme has now grown to include five trained nurses, two counselors, and more than a hundred volunteers, who have undergone training in primary health care and counseling.