The Awakening Centre of Antoby is run by the Lutheran Church of Madagascar. Their monthly budget is 150 euros per month (which proceed from gifts or from the sale of vegetables organized at the end of the services). There are 198 patients in the centre: sick, mentally or physically handicapped, addicted to drugs. Some of them come from distant villages and have been there for years.

Some patients come with a relative who will take care of their meals and hygiene while the treatment lasts. Others had been abandoned at the entrance of the village. Once the 'healing' has been declared by the Village Council (and approved by an 'angel'), the patient may benefit from a plot of land within the village where he is free to build a hut. He will also become a part of the benevolent staff of the centre.