The Educational Centre João Paulo II offers full-cycle education for every student. It supports school activities and provides help in the main subjects, like Portuguese, mathematics, history, geography and science.

But children and teens can experience much more than a conventional academic journey during extracurricular hours: they can attend IT, English, reading and choir classes while making new friends and building their trust in adults. Together they brighten up and preserve the cultural traditions of the region, they take walks, cultural trips, watch movies, launch eco-friendly initiatives and grow the vegetables that they then cook and serve during meals in the Centre.

Since 2017, the Centre has been offering social media and digital entrepreneurship courses to middle and high school students.

The Joao Paulo II Educational Centre offers the students the opportunity to look at life from another perspective, different from what economic difficulties and local violence might suggest. It helps them to grow as individuals, to face reality with reasonable hope and to use all their knowledge and skills to develop and contribute to a better society.

The internal organization of the Educational Centre is almost identical to that of a school, even though it has its own unique feature of the after-school activities in which the students can do their school work and revise what they learnt during formal classes.