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“One world, one health” – Service-learning project at the Margarita Barrientos Foundation
A delegation of almost fifty students, teachers and university researchers from twenty countries that are members of the Uniservitate programme from CLAYSS, visited yesterday the Margarita Barrientos Foundation in Villa Soldati as part of the activities of the XX international Week of Service-Learning (AYSS), to be held in Buenos Aires.
During the encounter in the building that once were Margarita Barrientos home, in which today they have a community kitchen and a kindergarten, in the Piletones neighbourhood, the international delegation was able to known a Service-Learning project of diseases prevention and pet care that University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has been carrying out there since 2006.
Marcela Martínez Vivot, Director of the interdisciplinary project ‘One world, one health’ and three veterinarians who learned about the proposal as students and continue today as volunteers, shared their experiences and goals with the international delegation.
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