Inclusive pollinator garden

The Víctor Parés Collazo Montessori school is today extremely grateful for the new pollinator garden that allows students in wheelchairs to have contact with nature.

Since the beginning of the year, the Víctor Parés Collazo school, specialized in Special Education, has participated in the Sembrando Regresamos project, thanks to the non-profit organizations Instituto Nueva Escuela and Para la Naturaleza, who seek that students have contact and ties with the environment.

As part of the project the school started with a pollinator garden. Since then, the students have planted and released hundreds of butterflies, a wonderful experience for the boys and girls.

The guide Yaneissa Meléndez and the environmental interpreter Wesley X. Torres observed in the first sowings the joy of the boys and girls in having contact with the soil, so it was necessary to find a way to integrate all the students.

It was thus that an act of love arose, as Yaneissa described it. Make the pollinator garden an inclusive space so that all boys and girls could participate.

With this in mind, some high germination beds were created and other lower ones next to them, this allowing all the boys and girls to participate and be together, in the same place.

''We wanted precisely that, for it to be a space where both groups can work collaboratively,'' Wesley said.

This dream is today a reality thanks to the hands of several people who believed that these spaces are extremely necessary in our schools and in the society in which we live.

The school community is extremely grateful and they have seen how this space has had wonderful achievements in the students.

Now with these germination beds they are ready to start propagating the host plants for the butterflies and see not only the butterfly cycle, but the cycle of the plants.