Our Impact

Our nonprofit organization began last February 2022. This was when we started searching for rural schools in the Northern states of Argentina. As we searched for those rural schools, we started looking at the Education Office of the State of Jujuy. We found many rural schools located towards the north of this State Capital city - San Salvador de Jujuy. Due to the fact that our CEO is very familiar with the area, we selected School #332 of Chucalezna.

To better describe Chucalezna, it is a small settlement, located 76.5 miles north of the main city of the State, San Salvador de Jujuy. When we became aware that the name of this school is "“Los Niños Pintores” (The Painting Children), we coordinated with the principal to donate art materials as our first project. When we had the opportunity to visit this school in September of 2022, we shared with the students about our donation for art supplies. Our hearts exploded with joy and happiness to see the excitement and joy in their faces. We were so happy to think about the impact that small things will bring to these children that are hungry to learn.

The classes for Year 2023 bergan on March 1st. Mrs. Lucrecia Gonzalez, the school principal, scheduled a class with an art teacher and the students will use the art materials that D-AR donated. We are so excited that we will be able to bring those paintings to our website so you might clearly see the impact that small donations can make. These dear children are being transformed.

In the images below, now you are able to admire the hard work of these children and see their hearts and efforts to express themselves. A very well-known artist from this area, Jorge A. Mendoza, wrote about the experience with this school’s students: ‘In the students' paintings, there is a great interest in the play of colors: painting for the children meant interpreting nature in their own way, feeling the elements they were making as their own reality, this is how they painted the mountains, the plantations that they sowed the scenes of daily life in which they were actors. They perfected the art of skillfully handling all the qualities offered by materials such as tempera, expressing gouache surfaces, fillings, textures, colors. Unfortunately, many of the works do not bear the signature of the artists, who did not paint for immortality, but out of the purest need for expression and amazement for the environment.’ (https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=jorge%20mendoza%20jujuy)

These children from 1st grade to 3rd grade had the opportunity to explore drawing and painting options when the school had this art teacher come and guide them through the combination of forms and lines. Then these kids completed their art pieces with crayons or watercolors.

The school principal and staff enjoyed viewing the joy that this workshop brought to this group of children, eager to learn and express their abilities.

More pictures of this workshop are shown in the Images page.