Cultural TRIps of the children from Casa San José
The objective of the children and teenagers living at Casa San
José of Cochabamba, Bolivia, is a safe return to their families or boarding
schools. To avoid a return to living in the streets, we often organize cultural
field trips for them, to promote and encourage their human growth and to captivate
their motivation to achieve this goal.
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In the first trimester of this year, they visited the Alcide d’Orbigny
Natural History Museum in Cochabamba. One of the children said, “This museum is
like an encyclopedia of natural sciences”. There they were able to observe,
displayed in the rooms, the principal minerals and fossils that form the
important biodiversity of Bolivia. Also, they learned that, in 1826, Alcide
d’Orbigny, a twenty-four year old French scientist, visited South America. As a
result of his trips, he wrote a monumental work on the subject of Natural
History. Zoologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and above all, explorer, he
left an important and inspiring legacy. With faces full of surprise and
admiration, the children of Casa San José greatly enjoyed this field trip.