No money! About 15 kids each year are left without a chance to access agrotechnical education in Patagones because Nació.

In the southern end of the province of Buenos Aires, where the pampas region begins to dissolve and the conditions typical of Patagonia emerge, the Centro Educativo para la Producción Total (CEPT) 23 operates, located in the Igarzábal hamlet within the Patagones district, the most extensive and least populated district in the province. “We are part of a network of 35 educational centers throughout the province of Buenos Aires, but in our case we are the most southern and the only ones with Patagonian characteristics,” explained its director Ariel Perissé. These centers are grouped in a national federation (FACEPT) and have “a statute similar to that of cooperatives, so their legal status is composed of 90% by the parents themselves and the rest by affiliated intermediary institutions such as INTA.” The institution is located in a region that is harsh from a climatic and productive standpoint: barely 300 millimeters of rainfall a year, strong winds, and productive systems that ...