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Learning through Service & CAS When our national authorities decreed social, preventive and compulsory isolation, it was the beginning of a period of uncertainty and bewilderment for us, of challenges, but also of opportunities.
With deep emotion and gratitude for everything that was made possible, we share here some of the outstanding activities:
At the same time that we tried to redefine and rediscover our work, we embarked on the difficult task of continuing to be present in those spaces where we have been for years; of continuing to accompany our students in building links with the community that we are part of. We were determined that isolation would not imply a distancing; we did not allow virtuality to erase our traces.
The Distance Tutoring project was born as an answer to the question: how could schools carry out pedagogical continuity in the given scenario? It was thus that the idea of accompanying children and teenagers who were limited by the new virtuality arose. Over 60 children and teenagers from five institutions were part of this programme: Escuela Primaria 11 Delta Argentino, Escuela 9 in Cucha Cucha, public schools in Añatuya, Santiago del Estero, Nuestra Sra. del Rosario, both primary and secondary levels in San Fernando, and children of staff from our community. We contacted them and bonded, and accompanied them to carry out their schoolwork. This programme included financial support with a grant for telephone charges awarded to many students.
And thus we continued building networks and bridges. This is how the Campaña Solidaria de Emergencia Covid 19 was born, nurtured by all the institutions that are part of the Comunidad Ampliada San Andrés, with the firm purpose of responding to the needs of the San Fernando district organisations with which we work. and to continue having the possibility of being agents of social change. The Campaign was the first impulse to which countless volunteers joined (parents, students, former students, teachers) and the nucleus around which projects did not stop germinating.
PEDAGOGICAL CONTINUITY
VIRTUAL TRIP TO AÑATUYA, SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO: The proposal was mainly aimed at students of the last three years with an aim to preserving the continuity of the Haciendo Camino project, both from the liaison itself and the economic point of view. Virtual workshops were designed
