In 1906, the Brothers of Charity had 42 communities in Belgium where about 1,000 brothers cared for about 6,000 people with a mental illness, hundreds of elderly and sick men and a large number of adults who were visually impaired. In this same province they instructed and cared for more than 9,000 impoverished children, orphans, people with an intellectual and people with a physical disability. The congregation also ran a mainstream school affiliated with the Government, the graduates of which teach in the numerous boarding and model schools belonging to the Congregation.