The Guillermo Reifkhol school in Patillas offered its first ecological camp

The Montessori school Guillermo Reifkhol (GR) in Patillas offered this summer its first ecological camp thanks to our friends of Para La Naturaleza, allowing students to have contact and knowledge of the environment free of charge.

The camp arises since the school has a garden nursery, composting and orchard, then facing summer, which is the longest period where students and guides are off campus, there was concern about how to maintain these spaces. It should be noted that there are residents of the community who in the past years had taken charge, but this year they assumed responsibility.

The possibility turned into a four-week camp where 40 GR students from Early Childhood up to Secondary kept up the care of the school's environmental projects, but also received a lot of knowledge.

They learned about compost, the organic materials needed, caterpillar care, butterfly metamorphosis, seedbeds, and how to apply what they learned at home.

They had an excursion to the Carite 3.0 farm in Guayama and ended the camp by visiting the UPR Botanical Garden in Río Piedras and the Old Aqueduct. In the nursery, the youngest students were transplanting, while the older ones studied and identified microorganisms from the river together with interpreters from Para La Naturaleza.

Teresa, who is the guide in charge of the environmental projects at the school, celebrates that this camp took place and hopes that it will continue to take place in the coming years.

Guillermo Riefkohl school has shown over the years a great interest in being an ecological school and providing its students with this experience, love and knowledge of nature.