The Franciscan Boys Home in Bethlehem is one of many social services run through the Custody. The Home, founded in 2007 as an affiliate to Terra Sancta College, sought to open a new window of hope and a lifeline to a bright future.

The Boys Home is located in the city of Bethlehem, only a short distance from the birthplace of our Lord Jesus Christ. This Home was equipped by the Custody of the Holy Land to embrace boys between the ages of 6 and 18, children who were driven into a world of pain and suffering for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include being orphaned, abandoned, neglected through divorce, drug abuse within their family, physical and emotional abuse and other socioeconomic problems that our Christian Palestinian community faces.

The Boys Home was established to care for Christian children in need because of serious social, psychological, and economic problems.  The Home provides them with a safe and caring shelter where their educational and spiritual needs are met. Here they are afforded with an environment that fosters personal growth, social adaptation, and formation.  A spirit of cooperation between medical professionals, clergy, teachers, and specialists helps these boys to become good Christian young men.