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ChildArt | Art for Health Waste of development mattered little to the students

and faculty at Escuela Argentina Modelo in
Buenos Aires.
Time? bilingual project (May–October 2019) for the
The school developed an interdisciplinary

following areas of study: Literature (in English),
Leadership Skills lessons (in Spanish), Art,
Not so in Buenos Aires Physical Education, and Information and Com-

munication Technol-
In the closing years of the
ogies. On the first
nineteenth century, Argen-
An artist is also an day, we borrowed the
tina was one of the world’s
actor, musician, theme from the 2016
richest countries with the
dancer, or performer. Paralympics Games
highest per capita income.
Today, Argentina faces an So athletes are “We’re the Super-
economic catastrophe, with also artists. humans!” to inspire

more than 40 percent of its the students. They
were astonished to
population falling under
poverty. The government
slashed funding for educa-
tion, the Ministry of Culture
was turned into an agency,
but fortunately many scien-
tists who had left for better
opportunities overseas are

coming back these days.
What lingers are questions
about the importance of the
arts. Sadly but unsurpris-
ingly, the National Arts Fund
(Fondo Nacional de las
Artes) did not support the

Argentina Arts Olympiad.
The lack of official inter-
est in artistic and creative
Paula Doncel Cruz
Age 11, Argentina