Pre-registrations for the Early Childhood Space are now openFor sons and daughters of teachers, non-teaching staff and students from the University City and surrounding areas.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario For the third consecutive year, the company has launched its care center located at Pje. Puerto Belgrano 146 bis (Berutti 2100), a strategic location close to the University City (CUR), where a large number of students, teachers and non-teaching staff come every day to carry out different types of activities.
El Early Childhood Space (EPI) CUR Its purpose is to accommodate and accompany boys and girls from a respectful, conscious and loving perspective. It is thought of as a space for recreational-pedagogical activities based on learning through experience, prioritizing the development of autonomy, interests, abilities and emotions of children; so that they can be, grow and learn within a framework that respects their processes and their rights.
This space aims to accompany and assist the university community by “guaranteeing a place to house children, with personnel trained to care for this age group, collaborating with the tasks of those who work and study at the University so that they can effectively do so,” said Rector Franco Bartolacci.
The programme has two shifts: in the morning, from 2 a.m. to 9:12.30 p.m., and in the afternoon, from 13.30:17 p.m. to 1 p.m. Each of them has three rooms open daily, for children aged 2, 3 and XNUMX.
Taking as a basis the experience that has been carried out since 1994 in the Pedagogical Port, a territorial reference space for the families of the Sixth, the Universidad Nacional de Rosario In recent years, it joined in to co-manage this work and thus, jointly, direct its efforts to care for the children of the neighborhood and the university community.
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A space with a historical territorial anchorage
The Pedagogical Port was created in 1994 as one of the work spaces of the Cooperating Association of the Center for Child Development and Family Promotion (CeDIPF). Three years ago, the Universidad Nacional de Rosario joined in co-managing this place with the Cultural Don Goyo (Puerto Belgrano 123 bis). Thus, in joint work, they direct all their efforts to caring for the children of República de la Sexta and the university community.
Entire families passed through its spaces, receiving support and new learning both in the Pedagogical Port intended for early childhood and in the Cultural Don Goyo and the Casita Esmeralda, both intended for work with second childhood, adolescents and adults.
“For many years, CeDIPF has been a reference and accommodation space in the República de La Sexta neighborhood. At UNR, we seek to consolidate outreach projects and programs, which is why it is essential to continue guaranteeing the sustainability of this space, supporting children and their families,” says Carla Bressan, coordinator of the Child Development and Family Promotion Center.
Following the challenges imposed by the pandemic on territorial work, the network of institutions in the neighborhood was reconfigured and strengthened, allowing for a comprehensive approach to addressing children in conjunction with teams from the Municipality of Rosario, the CeAC Health Center, the UNR Cultural Center, and various organizations from the Sixth.
Wellbeing of the entire community
The UNR has a long history of management, extension and welfare policies with a presence in the territories.
The social context of the health emergency brought to the forefront of the public agenda the importance of care policies and having strategies to reconcile domestic-family and work-educational life.
In the city of Rosario, publicly managed and fee-free child care spaces or daycare centers are scarce and are territorially limited, failing to cover the existing population demand. That is why it is more complex to reconcile work and training life with the care tasks involved in parenting in the early childhood period. “We believe that the role of the university present in the territory is very important since it allows, based on the articulation with grassroots institutions and organizations and the interrelationships of all the actors that inhabit and transit it, social consensus can be built. , new ties and links of respectful citizenship and that support for the most vulnerable sectors, in this case children, be deepened.”said Lic. Ianara Hummel, Secretary of the Extension and Territory Area of the UNR.