For 33 years, “Hogar Siembra” in San Rafael de Alajuela has received girls and young women victims of abandonment and it has helped them to become women who, when they turn 18 years old, will be independent.
What we want is for girls to leave the institution as women with a labor, housing and technical solution,”
said María Castro, executive director of Hogar Siembra.
On December 14th, the institution took one step further. It inaugurated within the refuge an Integral Training Center, which will allow the 34 girls, currently housed in there, to complete their academic and technical studies.
Girls and young people used to receive lessons in their rooms or in the gardens, but thanks to the support of private enterprises they will do so in the comfort of a classroom.
Now it’s not just a hotel. Today, Hogar Siembra is a hotel and a school,”
added Castro.
Ana Helena Chacón, vice president of the Republic, was part of the inauguration.