Timkatec's program contains sports and manual work. Unfortunately, craft lessons (such as basket work and macramé macramé) were halted because the center could not afford to pay the two craft technicians who used to teach these classes. The children loved those activities because they believed they could make some money using the skills later on. The school has approximately 100 students, of which 40 are interns ranging from 10 to 17 years old. Timkatec's objective is to provide to the adolescents, after a four-year period, a basic formation and a job. That is why they think of education, rather than limiting their learning just to alphabetization.
"It is fundamental to show children that one loves them and really wants to help them. The rest goes automatically. It is also a work of justice towards these children whose physical, intellectual and moral development is jeopardized by a life without affection, without guidance, without constraint, without obligation. The street cannot educate in any way." Father Joseph Simon of Timkatec.