Well, it's a pleasure to be here with you. I bring with me the president-elect, meaning he is the new president of the Republic of Chile.
As you all know, Chile is 30 years ahead of us in education, right? But we will catch up someday by doing these kinds of things. God willing. God willing, there's still a long way to go, but we are going to fight to achieve it.
Mr. President-elect, welcome again. To the delegation accompanying you, which is your future cabinet, once again, welcome. To the members of the government cabinet here with us, and to the members of the Municipal Works Directorate, the DOM, who have built this school, which turned out very beautiful, just like all the others they make.
Dear students, parents, directors, and teachers of the different schools we are inaugurating today. Dear Salvadoran people, ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, we have a program called 'Two Schools a Day,' where every day, every day, we start two schools.
Before starting the 'Two Schools a Day' program, we had already remodeled many schools, hundreds of schools, but very few. And since the goal is to remodel all the schools in the country, we started the 'Two Schools a Day' program, which is basically what it's called: every day, two new schools are started. Yesterday two schools were started, today two schools were started, tomorrow two schools will be started, the day after tomorrow two schools will be started, and so on until we finish all the schools in our country.
But from this 'Two Schools a Day' program, we already have 500, well, 504 that are already under construction, and tomorrow there will be 506, the day after tomorrow 508. But one thing is to start the school and have it under construction, and another is to finish the school. So last time we inaugurated 70 schools in a single day, and today we come to inaugurate another 70 schools.
And well, as you know, 'Two Schools a Day' is not just painting or, I don't know, putting in some new furniture. 'Two Schools a Day' is comprehensive; it's complete schools, new classrooms, roofs, bathrooms, kitchens, recreational areas, lighting, ventilation, safe conditions to study and to teach, etc. It's about having dignified schools. True centers of study.
As you know, in our country, the type of schools we had were sad. It was rare to find a school that was more or less okay. Most schools were in conditions, and many we haven't reached yet, are in sad, deplorable conditions, basically falling down or made of tin sheets. Well, last time we showed some schools made of bamboo, others made of plastic bags, with tin sheets, constructions of wattle and daub, of mud, or of cement, but they were built in 1950 and they forgot to maintain them for the last 70 years, and they are basically a ruin, and that's where children receive their classes.
Fixing them isn't easy, but it has to be done, and it's going to take us a while because we don't have a magic wand to fix them all at once, but we are moving fast and we are doing well.
There is something important that few people, well, many know it, some don't, which is that while there is mainly an institution in charge of the direction and the majority of the work, many of the schools are being built, or at least helped to be built, by inmates from our penitentiary system.
So, in the 'Zero Idleness' program, we have many inmates who deserve a second chance. We are not talking about murderers, nor are we talking about people who committed minor crimes that deserve a second chance. They are working in many areas, and one of the areas they are working in is helping with the construction of schools, and another is in the construction of desks, furniture, games for children, and in some way, there will be some who are building the desks for their own children, and that means a lot. A country coming from where it was coming from to what we are building is something diametrically opposite.
And one of the results, these interventions are not cosmetic, as you can see, it is real and it will directly impact the quality of education, but it doesn't just impact there, it is also impacting enrollment. Enrollment is rising, and note that enrollment is rising while the birth rate is falling, meaning percentage-wise it is rising even more.
For example, there is a school, the Cantón El Guaje school center, which has registered a 70% increase in enrollment. That's the highest, there are others with 9%, 11%, 12%, but the Cantón El Guaje school center has registered a 70% increase in enrollment.
Just imagine a 70% increase in a canton where the population isn't going to double. If enrollment rose 70%, it's because very important things are happening there. One is the infrastructure, obviously. Another is security, because obviously children can go to study calmly, parents can be calm that their children are going to school and that two things won't happen.
Gang members won't do anything to them because they are in prison, and they won't become gang members because no one will recruit them, but rather they will become men and women of good.
And then we also have the delivery of the new school supply packages. I think many of you have already seen them. They are beautiful, complete packages, delivered on time, and they are the kind of supplies that if someone had money, they would buy the same thing.
It includes two uniforms, a pair of shoes. For the younger grades, it includes a tablet; for the older grades, a computer. The books, notebooks, pencils, colors, and all the things. And the important thing is that it will be delivered on time, meaning when classes start, they will receive their school supply packages, unlike before, which wasn't like that, and much less were they complete, even in our government, and many times they were delivered in July, August.
I think many of you know and won't let me lie that sometimes we were even going to give the uniform in October, and they would say, 'Well, what's the point, I'm only going to wear it for a month.' And not to mention the wrong sizes and all the logistical errors, errors from previous governments that didn't do anything, but we decided, we are going to fix this.
And with the new minister, we created a logistics program where everything is measured, tabulated, the quality, the timelines, the sizes, and everything so that it is done well.
There's an issue that came up where the opposition started complaining that before things weren't delivered on time. Now that they are going to be delivered on time and well and of the highest quality, they say, 'Ah, but you didn't take into account the national producers.' Because of course, to get everything out on time, we had to bring planes full of things for the children.
And then they told me, 'Look, President, but we have all these national producers who are also Salvadorans and live off production for schools.' I told them, 'Well, look, we have to first see, we have to help everyone, but let's go by priorities. The priority of this program is not to give contracts to production people. The priority of this program is to deliver the school supply packages to the children. That is priority number one, and we are going to fulfill that priority first. What do we need to deliver the school supply packages on time, with quality, standardized, without errors, well-made, without a button missing from the shirt, without the shoe being two sizes too big, without part of the package being delivered one month and the rest four months later, without errors, and delivered well and on time and with quality? Well, we need to hire the large suppliers who can supply us. And that was done.'
And some national suppliers and some foreign suppliers were hired to fulfill the first priority, which is to deliver on time, with quality, well, and complete.
And then came the second priority, which was to help the national producers, especially the small ones, so their businesses wouldn't collapse. So we called them all and said, 'Look, gentlemen, we have to deliver at the start of classes. What can you deliver at the start of classes, and what can you deliver later?' And they were honest, they said, 'Well, we can deliver all of this before classes start, and all of this we can bring later, in June, July, October.' So I told them, 'Look, let's do something so everyone wins. We are going to buy everything you can produce in the times you can deliver it, but the children are not going to wait for you. So we are going to cover those times with imports, we are going to bring what is needed to deliver completely, and then what you deliver later, well, another uniform is given or the packages for next year are supplemented.' In short, what we want is not to take a single dollar away from any national producer.
But, but we were also not going to allow children to be at the mercy of when they want to deliver, the quality they want to deliver. If the shirt comes without buttons, too bad, take it like that, hold it. So, now we are going to do this, and then we are going to start organizing the national producers, helping them with their productive capacity, and in the end, the child is the priority. The national producer is also important, everyone will be helped, but never sacrificing the children, which is what has been done all these previous years.
Well, with this, we are going to have good school centers. Little by little, right? We are building. Just today we inaugurated 70. Good supplies, uniforms, shoes, computers.
We are developing with Elon Musk and X AI tutors so that every child in El Salvador has an individualized tutor for all subjects. Elon Musk himself announced that. Did some of you see it? Yes, more or less. Well, we announced it on all the networks, but...
Discipline rules, which are important, are being implemented.
And now something that also fills us with pride is that my wife Gabriela, the First Lady, launched the new educational curriculum for early childhood. And this is work by her and her office, the people who work with her, and many people from MINED who have been working since 2019 trying to create a complete, comprehensive program, and it is very beautiful.
I saw it, I don't know, I don't have the experience she has in these matters. She is a professional and this is what she knows how to do. I'm not going to try to explain it better than her, but it is a program designed around how we are going to take advantage of the years where children learn the most, because the brain has neuroplasticity, meaning like a tree. You see a tree, when the tree is green, it can be straightened easily. When the tree is already big, well, unfortunately, it's harder for us to change or improve. We can learn something new, but it costs us. A child, right? And the younger they are, the easier it is for them to learn.
So, the first years of life are the most important years, and that's what my wife and the First Lady's office team have been working on to generate a new way of teaching and therefore a new way of learning.
And this isn't just giving the child a tablet and letting them watch a screen all day, no, this is dynamic, it has the playful part, it has the teacher training part, the affection they should receive, so they feel important, the children, so they feel taken into account. We are not going to let children make all the decisions, but we are going to take them into account in the decision, so they feel they are part of the decisions being made, so they feel respected, so they feel like what they are, which are the protagonists of this, because all of this we are doing not for you, the parents, we are doing it for your children.
And so, from the First Lady's office, they want to promote this approach to early childhood care.
Remember that the curriculum is not just a paper or a document that simply says we are going to do these norms, but it represents everything: the areas, the attention, the study materials, the games, learning by playing, putting the child at the center as it should be, and recognizing the teacher as well, who is ultimately the one who guides, who accompanies, who builds real learning experiences.
I see many times, and I've seen this since I was mayor, I was mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán, a small town of 10 square kilometers, and they always made me the godfather of the graduation so I would pay for it, and so they made me the godfather, I was always the godfather, and there I would arrive, we would do the graduation at the schools, and I always saw that when the children graduated, they would always hug the teachers crying because they weren't going to see them anymore, 'Miss, we're not going to see you anymore,' crying.
So I would say, I'm sure there are problems. That was 12 or 13 years ago, I would say, I'm sure we have very serious problems in education, but there is affection between the teacher and their students. There is affection, the majority, the vast majority, there are exceptions, right? But in the vast majority there is affection, and on that, you can build. There is a good foundation.
So, what was missing was a curriculum, the tools, the infrastructure, the laboratory, the playful part, the programs, the supplies, but the affection was there. And so we build on that, and my wife Gabriela and her team built on the affection, and I believe that will totally change education in El Salvador, and they are fruits we won't see because as they say, he who invests in education is like he who plants a tree. He plants it but he never enjoys the shade. Someone else comes to enjoy the shade of the tree. Why plant it? Well, the education we are going to invest in now, we will see in 20 years. We won't be here anymore. Well, in the world, yes, right? But not, God willing, not in the government. But the fruits will be seen. Someone has to plant them at some point.
We have also made an investment of more than 1 billion dollars in 1.2 million devices. We are going to add 420,000 more devices this year.
We have, to guarantee that not a single student is without a computer or a tablet, depending on the age: tablets for kindergarten, from kindergarten 4 up to pre-school; tablets for first grade to third grade; computers from fourth grade to ninth grade; and computers for high school.
And the idea is that everyone has a device and that they will have the tools that someone, if someone has money, well, they buy a computer for their child. But now all the children of El Salvador have that same right, the tools to learn. Note, it's not about giving handouts; if the government is paying for it, and obviously it comes from people's taxes, but it's not about giving handouts, it's about giving them the tools so that they make an effort and learn. And that is important that as parents we instill in our children.
It's not that they are giving you something, it's that they are giving you a tool so that you make an effort and get ahead. Just like parents with economic resources give their child the tools, but he has to make an effort, he has to study, he has to work, he has to get ahead.
It's not 'give me, give me,' it's 'they give me the opportunity to work and to be able to get ahead, and if I can, even help my family get ahead.' So, it's important to instill that in children. We are giving them everything they need, but they are the ones who have to make an effort, study, learn, and get ahead. And it is their parents who have to instill that in their children.
Well. Having said that, President, I don't know if you want to mention something. Sorry to catch you like this. I know... No, no, no. If you authorize me, I first want to thank you, President, for receiving us, for opening the doors of your nation to us. For us, who are a country far away at the end of the world, a long and narrow country, it is very hopeful to see a nation that was immersed in a civil war, that was in a dispute against organized crime, move forward. And two words come to mind while you were speaking, which are dignity and freedom.
Dignity for the teachers, to have a place to receive their students. Dignity for the families, which is reflected in the increase in children's enrollment. Because when parents see there is a dignified place where their children can go to learn, where there are teachers who receive them and guide them, and that exchange of emotions happens when the children leave. I lived that emotion with my nine children, a large family, and there was no more emotional ceremony than the graduation of each of my children. The youngest is already 18, when they hugged their teachers and cried.
And that filled me with pride because it was the student's respect for their teacher and the recognition of what the teacher had given them, which were the tools for them to get ahead. Dignity for the students who come, who will have a clean bathroom with running water, who will have orderly desks, dignity in the color of the school, which is white, which is hard to maintain. Usually, one looks for colors where the foot mark on the wall isn't noticeable, and sometimes the white is from the height of the foot up because children put their feet on the wall.
But here they have a responsibility, the children, to take care of what is given to them as a tool, because this being here implies the effort of millions of people in El Salvador who pay their taxes, and with that, the government, the president can build a beautiful house with universal accessibility, which also caught my attention because it meets universal accessibility standards where every child who may have a disability because they can't walk, because they can't see, will be able to receive an education.
And freedom, because education gives freedom. When you learn to add, to subtract, to read, to write, to understand what you read, you will have the freedom to choose. If you also learn a language over time, and the most known language is English, you will be able to travel the world and you will have opportunities because you will have a good foundation. And that freedom they obtain through the tools given to them, but it is the fruit of their responsibility.
So, dignity, freedom is something that today I see you are delivering throughout the nation. A nation that one sees and could come by air, says, 'This geography is very difficult to face because there are many mountainous areas to connect a country like yours, which is small, but I believe if we add up the surface area, it's double what it should be because of the amount of mountains.' You are giving the state dignity, freedom, and it is also reflected in the smiles of the people who were on the tour from where we arrived to here. There were people gathering and they were happy because they knew this was going to be a contribution. So thank you very much for the opportunity. I am sure you will catch up quickly because you said, we are going to deliver the supplies at the right time. We just came out of a year where school supplies in a fairly developed country arrived like in October.
And of course, we laughed with part of the cabinet because we saw this and said, 'They are going to arrive at the right time.' Well, we have good infrastructure, we have high artificial intelligence, but we weren't able to arrive on time, and it's not just the responsibility of a government in power, it's a responsibility of all of us. Therefore, once again, thank you very much, President, for this opportunity.
Well, today we are inaugurating the Centro Escolar Cacerío Las Lajas, Canton San Antonio Abad, the Gloria Borja Nathan Preschool Education School, the Centro Escolar Cantón El Despoblado, the Centro Escolar Belén Vía Palestina, the Centro Escolar Colonia Monseñor Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera, the Centro Escolar Cacerío El Rosario Cantón San José Las Flores, the Centro Escolar Cantón Dos Quebradas, the Centro Escolar Cacerío Los Guirola, the Centro Escolar Cacerío Las Cocinas, Canton Cutumá y Camones, the Centro Escolar Canton La Peñita, the Preschool Education School Canton El Limón, the Centro Escolar Comunidad Santa María, the Centro Escolar Cantón El Refugio, the Preschool Education School of Locuilta, the Preschool Education School Colonia 27 de Septiembre, the Preschool Education School of Aguilares, the Centro Escolar Mercedes Quintero, the Preschool Education School of San Sebastián, the Preschool Education School of Verapaz, the Centro Escolar Cantón Loma de Andalucía, the Preschool Education School of Canton Santa Rosa, the Instituto Nacional de Nuevo Cuscatlán, where I was mayor. Hello. The Preschool Education School of San José Villanueva, which is a municipality bordering Nuevo Cuscatlán. Centro Escolar Canton Los Amates. Centro Escolar Cacerío El Zapotal, Canton Tecomatal. Centro Escolar Cacerío del Mono in Canton El Avillal, Centro Escolar Cacerío El Es... they are creative with the names, right?
It's not that easy. Centro Escolar Canton Altomiro, Centro Escolar Cacerío El Divisadero, Canton Achiotal, Centro Escolar Ingeniero Ramón Enrique Ventura Portillo, Centro Escolar Cacerío Las Hojas, Canton Las Delicias, Centro Escolar Cacerío Cooperativa San Carlos 3, Canton El Villal, Escuela de Educación Especial de San Vicente, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Colonia La Caridad, Centro Escolar Jardines de San Bartolo, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Profesora María Escobar Granillo, Centro Escolar Leonardo Escúaga, Centro Escolar Cantón El Guaje, the one we mentioned that had a 70% increase in enrollment, Centro Escolar Comunidad Nueva Jerusalén, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Sor Ángela Panameño, Centro Escolar Cacerío Monterrey, Canton La Laguna, Centro Escolar Cantón Flora María Bajo, Centro Escolar José Mariano Méndez, Centro Escolar República de Turquía, Centro Escolar Antonio Morán de Lobato, Centro Escolar Colonia San Genaro, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Juan de Dios Arco, Centro Escolar Cantón El Botoncillal, Centro Escolar Cacerío del Jabalí, Canton Galera Quemada, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Sacacoyo, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Popotlán, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Profesora María Ema Castro de Chiquillo, Centro Escolar Cantón Santa Bárbara, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Comunidad 7 de Septiembre, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Gabriela Mistral, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Colonia Monserrat, Centro Escolar Cantón Lomas de Candelaria, Centro Escolar Fernando Yort, Centro Escolar Residencial Regalo de Dios, Escuela de Educación Parbularia de Santo Domingo, Escuela de Educación Parbularia de Tepetitán, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Hacienda Chánico, Centro Escolar Cacerío Los Laureles in Canton Zapotitán, Escuela de Educación Parbularia San Rafael, Escuela de Educación Parbularia Yolanda Ramírez de Díaz, Complejo Educativo Cristóbal Ibarra in Mexicanos. Complejo Educativo Cacerío El Rodeo in Canton San Matías. Centro Escolar del Canton San Ramón in San Antonio del Monte. Centro Escolar Cacerío Santo Tomás in San Luis Talpa and Centro Escolar Colonia Santa Leonor.
And the minister is at the Escuela de Educación Parbularia Yolanda Ramírez de Díaz. So well, these are the... there they are greeting us, and with that, these are the 70 schools we are inaugurating today. Classes start Monday, so Monday we will receive you in these new schools.
And there are already 500 more under construction so that we can go on inaugurating 70 by 70 or 80 by 80, God willing, until we reach all the schools in the country and that all children have the right to study in a beautiful school.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks to the President of Chile for accompanying us here. Thank you very much to all of you, to the teaching staff, to the DOM, to all the people who worked hard for this school and for the other 69 schools we see over there. A greeting to all the children and may God bless you all. Next, we are going to witness the ribbon-cutting by the Most Excellent President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, accompanied by the President-elect of the Republic of Chile, José Antonio Kast, and of course, students from the Centro Escolar Cantón San Ramón in San Antonio del Monte, Sonsonate Centro.
Very well. And at this moment, the Most Excellent President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, accompanied by the President of the Republic of Chile, José Antonio Kast, will tour the facilities of the Centro Escolar Cantón San Ramón in San Antonio del Monte, Sonsonate Centro.
Hello, good evening, Mr. President. Again. Good evening, Mr. President. The architect. Congratulations. You did this, right? I mean, your team. Well, the DOM team, the team, but you are here. Yes.
Canton. The school center was built in an area of 4,300 square meters. This was under a cooperation agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank. We begin the tour.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll be in the back watching.
Well, as you mentioned, the school center has universal accessibility. It had an investment of 4.6 million dollars and more than 650 students will benefit. Currently, it's a large school for the size of El Salvador. There are larger schools, right? There are some with over 1,000 and such, but most will have around 300. This school has from initial to ninth grade, it doesn't have high school.
Ah, okay. There are 13 classroom modules, which include a multi-purpose room. Here the preschool isn't here either, right? No, the preschool is in this part. Ah, yes, because last time we inaugurated both, right? This one is smaller. It also has the Zoom room, which is for meetings, a multi-purpose room. In this case, this school center also has a nurse's office, administrative area, the court, which is where we were a moment ago, the flag of Chile and El Salvador. Yes, right? Very grateful for the detail.
Let's go into the Zoom room. There is a Gabriela Mistral school. Yes, yes, of course, she is the Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize, so we are going to have to send her a special library. Thank you.
Well, this is one of the multi-purpose rooms. As the President mentioned, these are part of the furniture that the inmates create, that the inmates manufacture for the institutes. The inmates manufacture 100% of this. It is quality furniture, and quality because it is sturdy. Yes, it withstands the children's wobbling, right? It's good material. That's it. Well, LED lighting, fans because the area is a bit hot, wide windows to facilitate ventilation access, the false ceiling, porcelain tile floors, the appropriate furniture, look, so that the teachers can give... They are basic things, but that didn't exist before. There were rooms that didn't have a blackboard or broken blackboards. Broken blackboards or that didn't have fans or that didn't have a door. There is also, right? A fire sprinkler system, fans.
Let's go to the nurse's office. The nurse's office, my children always visited, but the magic herb was chamomile. Aha. Because for everything.
How are you? Most Excellent Presidents. Welcome to the nurse's office. In this area, all students will be attended to. They will receive first aid, vaccination campaigns, medical consultation campaigns, scheduled by the Ministry of Health. Likewise, the area is fully equipped, it is also complete with medications so that our children have immediate attention. It has its washing area, the light is adequate, a degree lower so as not to bother the patient, and it will also be used for different vaccination campaigns.
Excellent. Is that vaccination campaign also for the general population or is there a health center nearby? Ah, perfecto. Health. Of course, the schools can be used. I was telling the President that at my children's school, the nurse's office always had to have infusions because many children came not for a nurse, but out of shyness. Ah. And here there was a whole... the nurse was always the most applauded at my children's graduations. It was always the nurse, because whenever a child was shy or something, they would ask to go to the nurse's office. 'My stomach hurts, my head hurts,' and it was a good conversation, a good dialogue, solved all the problems.
Well, it's 50% of... Thank you very much. That it goes very well. Thank you. 50% of illnesses are in the head. Yes. So, a good reception. We in Chile are working a lot on the inclusion of children with attention deficit, with autism spectrum disorder, which are stages that one goes through little by little. Of course.
We are going to enter the preschool area in all school centers. The preschool areas are separated by age differences. Absolutely. Well, this area was designed based on the new early childhood curriculum, which goes hand in hand with the First Lady, so that the children can have a meaningful... Sorry for the interruption, those furniture are also made by inmates. The furniture has been custom-made to be accessible to all children, so they are neither too big nor too small. They have all the didactic material, they are already part of the curriculum books. Yes, they arrived on time. They arrived on time. And all those books they made from scratch. They created the characters. Yes, in fact, they have created characters that the children are already getting familiar with. There are some less famous, others more famous. There is already a television program of the characters. Ah, look. Yes. 'La Casa de Lula' it's called, created also by the First Lady's office. So, the idea is like, I don't know, this is comprehensive. Yes.
We also have the water fountains, also at different heights for the reach of all children. They have their filter and they also have a button. Ah, example. They have a sensor so that the children can put their bottle there and it fills automatically. And here at the bottom are the filters so that the water is purified and they can drink it. Yes, because the tap water can be drunk, but it has levels, right? This is 100% filtered.
Well, this is the classroom enabled for preschool. It has a part that is like a storage room so that the children and the teaching staff can keep all the material. It looks very tidy too because they haven't started yet with all the toys and the didactic material. They also have their own bathroom area, they also have a shower in case any accident happens with the little ones. I have a daughter who is a preschool teacher. Ah, yes, yes. But she specialized in outdoor education, so they hardly use the room. It's all outdoors. Well, that's great. Yes, but yes, but well, and this is part of the furniture like this. Here are some of the characters that... yes, there are several. Of course, here there are, well, this is also a normal family, but inside, but this is already novel. Yes, but this is to say, it's a good production, it has good quality, right? Here is a family on the cover. It's... ah... in Chile it would be a novelty, I mean, we would be amazed, here, here we don't have that problem. Here we all approve this. No, no. In Chile there is a heated discussion. How good, what good material, what good quality. If the material is of the best quality and has been produced equally for all students in the country. All the children in this country have a computer tablet. Of course, there is a discussion, but there is also a theme of too much screen time. So, what we want is to balance so they have the tool just like we had it, but that there are also books, games, teachers. Look, play area. The sky, right? That the sky also doesn't have. It's not just a rigid structure, but it is developed for the learning of the children, wide windows for more lighting and ventilation accompanied, look, with the LED lighting. The fans. We also have a school garden. This is also in the... Yes. In the national early childhood curriculum. Yes, so they can do their... that... Well, there we have everything already nice, the second floor. Ah, so that well, the older children will be upstairs and well, they have the... I always wanted to have these in my house, it never lasts, right? Well, and we already placed the little plants like this so they can have their first experience planting.
So they are details that are marking the children. Yes. Well, they are going to have their first experience in their own garden and well, the play area which has a rubber floor so they don't get hurt or have accidents. The sewer pipe. How creative. Aha. Because it's a sewer pipe covered in synthetic grass. It's concrete, but it's covered in synthetic grass to prevent scrapes. No, I'm taking several ideas. It's beautiful. Yes, because I already have grandchildren, so I have four grandchildren. Okay.
Well, and this is the school center in Canton San Ramón in Sonsonate. The school center... and upstairs there were more classrooms, obviously we are going to go by time, but what is upstairs? Preschool classrooms. Those are quite a few classrooms. Still, there are 13 classrooms in total of... No, no, no. Of the entire school center. But, how many are upstairs? Because it has to have... there are three preschool classrooms. Three. Ah, three. Okay. And downstairs and two. That's five. Yes. And each classroom has its own bathrooms and showers inside. Big because it looked... Yes. And it's by age. Yes, by age. The youngest preschoolers are downstairs. And the ones upstairs are the ones who... Of course. No, although the little ones are going to want to go up. Yes, without a doubt. But it's not dangerous, right?
Well, and in the outdoor area, it only remains to mention that there is also a laboratory for the older students. Ah, these are the games for the older ones, let's say. Yes, here are the games for the older ones. And to mention also that all the roofs are thermoacoustic to avoid, to reduce noise and heat, right? More with that covered area because it rains, rains, rains all year, I imagine. And that's why the covered area is good for playing. There is the laboratory. That is the laboratory. It's just like the laboratory I had at my school, which was private. Yes, yes. That's what I told you. Last time we went to see it and it was much better than the one I had at school. Ah, look, it has its shower there. It also has an eyewash station. Eyewash stations that turn on with the foot in case at any moment they have an accident. Whatever, a clean bathroom. Of course, of course, of course.
Do you come to this school or another school? To this one. Yes. How good. Look, that is very important, that you can go everywhere. Until now this year, because he has always received classes at home. Ah, very good. And now, thank God, he is going to have the opportunity to attend class in person. That's what we were saying about a united home. That's right. How good. How good. You couldn't enter here. Do you move on your own or do they have to carry you? No, we carry him. But here you can move around alone. Yes. Yes, come on, and how good that you are going to come in person now. What grade are you going to? Sixth grade, you have your computer. Yes. And do you like social media? Yes. And I see it, right? What is your name? Gustavo. That it goes very well. Goodbye.
Nice to meet you. Thank you very much.
Perfect. Thank you. At your service. Thank you. Okay.
All the most relevant content about news and politics in El Salvador you can find here at MBN Digital. 5 years informing and bringing content to your hands. All the most relevant content about news and politics in El Salvador you can find here at MBN Digital. 5 years informing and bringing content to your hands. Yeah.
