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Pai Puku Day Tour: Explore Villa Hayes & Comprehensive Training Center
Asunción
Experience the Pai Puku Day Tour and discover Villa Hayes and the comprehensive training center. Explore the educational opportunities and sustainable practices at this unique school.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Villa Hayes - 05.30 / 06.00 am Pick up at a hotel or a private address in Villa Morra (or in Las Carmelitas). Departure north on the Transchaco route.
7.30 / 8.00am Stop in the Villa Hayes to take a walk along the coast of the Paraguay River. - Chaco Paraguayo - 9:00 am The journey continues north. We make a few stops along the route to admire the wildlife of this region, especially the many species of birds that stay here all winter.
- Escuela Pai Puku - Km 156 - Chaco Paraguayo - 12:00 pm Arrival in Paí Pukú village, where we learn more about the history and commitment of this beautiful place. The María Medianera Comprehensive Training Center, better known as the Pai Puku School in Chaco, is unique in its kind. Since June 1965 it has been on km 156 of the Transchaco route in the Benjamin Aceval district in the department Pdte Hayes in operation. It offers full education to low-income students. Of the 550 students and 60 teachers, almost 90 percent live there thanks to their self-administration during the school year. Their mission is to contribute to strengthening educational work, human and Christian support. It covers an area of six hectares and its large complex is made of materials from Chaco, such as karanday and palm trees. The center was “baptized” by the residents as the “Pai Puku School” in honor of its founder, the Belgian priest Pedro Shaw.
- Escuela Pai Puku - Km 156 - Chaco Paraguayo - For its part, the “Pai Puku Foundation” was born out of the idea of ??a group of local farmers and friends of Shaw who had joined together with the main goal of supporting the initiatives and activities of the school. It includes polyprofessional education for children and teenagers from the Paraguayan Chaco, although some students come from the eastern region, but only because their parents work at Estancias in the Chaco. However, all students come from low-income families. A specialty of this educational center is its self-administration, in which the students themselves are protagonists. They also work and produce beautiful furniture on an industrial scale. They have four organic gardens run by very young people, in addition to cutting and sewing activities, housekeeping, rural health promotion, hairdressing, typing, computers, electricity, beekeeping and plumbing. At 3:00 pm we retake the journey back to Asunción.
What's Included
- Air-conditioned transportation
- All relevant fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
- Lunch
Additional Information
On this tour we visit the city of Villa Hayes and the Paâi Puku school.
This school is a comprehensive training center, which gives the children from the Chaco the opportunity to learn and live here because the distances in the Chaco are great, so that they cannot come and go every day.
In addition to traditional training, they also receive training in various professional fields. The center also has an orchard and some livestock for their livelihood.
Location
Quesada 5050c
Quesada
With prior agreement. By the main access of Calle Quesada.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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