It carries a diversity of programs, ranging from counselling and orientation services to handicraft workshops, English classes for adults, Spanish classes for children and legal and medical aid clinics. Most of the families of Latin American origin living in Toronto are young couples between twenty and forty years of age. Their children are quite young. In many cases both parents work in factories. The children either stay at home under the care of another immigrant mother, or attend schools and take care of themselves when they come home.
Some parents work two shifts in the factories in order to improve their economic situation quicker.
When the mother stays at home, she is very isolated because she does not have the opportunity to learn the language as quickly as her husband or children do. This creates a different understanding of the realities that could be shared between the various members of the family. Neighbourhood life becomes very restricted because of the language problem and because of the tendency of Latin Americans to live in more dispersed numbers than other immigrant groups. The reason for this could also be the fact that they have not come in large groups at the same time, but have been steadily arriving as families or as individuals.