Vol. 24 No. 257 (2019)

School skiing: a debt paid off
They are boys and girls from popular sectors. Many live in deprived and marginalized urban neighborhoods. They attend public primary school, the fifth grade. They live in the area, but many, the majority, never went to the Mount. They looked at it from afar, because some people, for a long time, made them believe that access to the mountains is for the privileged few.
Skiing in Bariloche is a regional sport. But it is also a social and cultural practice that allows the citizenship construction; it is the care of the environment; it is the right to learn content that is part of literacy in these Patagonian lands; it is the future opportunity for recreation, interacting with others and also for accessing job sources.
Thanks to the tireless effort of committed teachers, the entire educational community and municipal, provincial and national institutions, today School Skiing has been set up as part of the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Education of the Province of Rio Negro and is a State Policy in the field of Humans Rights. Thus, since a few years ago, the snowy mountains dress up to receive the children of the earth, who while learning to ski dream that others have the same opportunity they had.
Thanks to the tireless effort of committed teachers, the entire educational community and national and provincial institutions today, School Skiing has been set up as part of the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Education of the Province of Rio Negro and is a State Policy in the field of Human Rights. Thus, since a few years ago, the snowy mountains dress up to receive the children of the earth, who while learning to ski dream that others will have the same opportunity they had.
Tulio Guterman, Director - October 2019