Children and adolescents Nearly 15,000 families in the municipality of Soacha will have a new well-being space, thanks to the launch of the Cultivarte program, an initiative between Constructora Bolívar, the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of Soacha and with the support of the community, which seeks to promote the comprehensive training of new generations, through cultural, educational and artistic activities.
This space, Focused on boys and girls between 6 and 17 years old, it will be ready in approximately four months and will operate in the place where the sales rooms of the Parque Campestre urbanization were. After its construction, it is expected that this Cultivarte in Soacha will impact project communities such as Parque Campestre, Hogares Soacha and the Torrentes complex, which together add up to more than 15,000 housing units.
Cultivarte offers spaces suitable for different learning activities for boys and girls. Photo:Private File
For Fernando Cortés McAllister, Vice President of Social Responsibility of the Bolívar Group and Director of the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation, Cultivarte is a support center for education and life project. “There is training in topics of citizenship, values, reading and writing. We provide computer centers where they can learn to code. There are, more or less, thirty computers in each Cultivarte. There is also the play center for the youngest children, so that they can learn and improve their reading and mathematics.”
This project is the result of an alliance between Constructora Bolívar, in charge of adapting the space; the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation, leader of the training model and approach; the Cultiva el Arte y la Cultura Foundation, responsible for the operation; the Mayor’s Office of Soachaas an institutional ally; and Banco Davivienda, which supports the expansion of the program nationally and in Central America.
There is training in topics of citizenship, values, reading and writing. We provide computer centers where they can learn to code. There are, more or less, thirty computers in each Cultivarte. There is also a playroom for the youngest children, so they can learn and improve their reading and mathematics.
Fernando Cortes McAllisterVice President of Social Responsibility of Grupo Bolívar and Director of the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation.
The Cultivarte program It takes place in around 90 Colombian municipalities, where it reaches more than 400,000 boys and girls; It is also developed in Central American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.
Fernando Cortés, Vice President of Social Responsibility of Grupo Bolívar. Photo:Private File
A space that improves coexistence
Constructora Bolívar has its sustainability model based on the construction of social, economic and environmental value. For this reason, Cultivarte, in addition to being a space that enables the care, safety and learning of children and young people, activates the relationships between them, their families and the construction company.
Alejandra Robledo, Executive Director of Sustainability at Constructora Bolívar, explains that: “Through Cultivarte, children learn, have access to quality information and have safe and happy spaces. We are building relationships of trust with the articulation of actions between people in the community, and that is an essential element of social capital. And social capital allows interaction and the construction of collaborative networks between individuals to achieve development, profits and positive initiatives in the community,” says the executive.
Through Cultivarte, children learn, have access to quality information and have safe and happy spaces. We are building relationships of trust with the articulation of actions between people in the community, and that is an essential element of social capital. And social capital allows interaction and the construction of collaborative networks between individuals to achieve development, profits and positive initiatives in the community.
Alejandra RobledoExecutive Director of Sustainability at Constructora Bolívar.
Alejandra Robledo, Executive Director of Sustainability at Constructora Bolívar. Photo:Private File
For this reason, he adds, the commitment between public and private entities is important and that the Soacha community takes ownership of the space. “Let the infrastructure be the enabler for the construction of those relationships of trust. This happens when we get people to leave their homes, meet, get to know each other, talk and identify that they have children and that they have challenges or projects that can be worked on for the common benefit. After that, you can ask for a favor, set up a WhatsApp group, go for a walk or ride a bicycle, for example, in exchange for taking out the car as a contribution to the environment,” concludes Alejandra Robledo.
An ideal alliance for Soacha
For the mayor of the municipality, Víctor Julián Sánchez, Cultivarte contributes to the solution of one of the great challenges of the communities, which is the care of minors during the time they do not attend classes.
“Us we have become a dormitory city. Therefore, every father and mother who leaves for Bogotá to work at four or five in the morning returns at seven or eight at night, so their biggest concern is what is happening with their child after 3 in the afternoon.when he leaves the academic day,” explained the president.
In this sense, Sánchez highlighted that this partnership with the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation and with Constructora Bolívar to generate a Cultivarte in the municipality becomes a solution. The program will have computer equipment, a playroom and a library that, along with educational and cultural programs, will provide opportunities for growth and use of free time.
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