Help Escuela
Aguaribay Build A Canning Hub!
Our Partnership with Escuela Aguaribay
The New Village School is proud to partner with Escuela Aguaribay, a small rural school in Mendoza, Argentina, that’s creating meaningful, hands-on opportunities for its students and community. Our collaboration has grown over the years through shared projects, mutual learning, and a commitment to real, grounded connection between our schools.
Our last three 8th grade classes have traveled to Aguaribay as part of our commitment to helping students become global citizens who support small communities as they grow and thrive.
During each visit, our students step into daily life in the community. They roll up their sleeves to build, paint, clean, dig, plant, and last year, even can tomatoes.
Because every step of canning is done by hand, from setting up equipment to crushing, bottling, boiling, and cleaning, the process is long and demanding.
Escuela Aguaribay hopes to create a small, state-approved canning kitchen where they can process not only tomatoes but other seasonal fruits as well. Their products are excellent, and all proceeds directly support and strengthen the school.
Every dollar truly helps. Please donate whatever you can.
Your gift helps little hands learn, grow, and nurture the earth.
NVS students stepping into the rhythm of real work.
Washing tomatoes side by side, turning work into connection.
Learning the craft, one careful press at a time.
A Community-Rooted Education Project Guided by Waldorf Principles
“When a child can relate what they learn to their own experiences, their vital interest awakens, their memory is activated, and what they have learned becomes their own.”
— Rudolf Steiner
A Litte Bit About
Escuala Aguaribay
Aguaribay grew out of a dream, and the commitment and collaboration, of a group of parents and educators in Mendoza, Argentina,
who wanted to offer children an education that was creative, free, and inclusive.
The roots of our school trace back to Jardín Risas de mi Tierra (“Laughter of My Land” Preschool), a small community project that began in a family garage.
That early experiment in community-based learning, inspired by Waldorf pedagogy and popular education, became the seed that blossomed into today’s Aguaribay School.
As the children grew older, so did the desire to continue this form of education and community management, leading to the founding of Aguaribay as a primary school.
Today, Aguaribay is a community-managed school with a Waldorf educational orientation, serving both early childhood and primary levels.
We work toward a creative, free, and inclusive education, grounded in respect for nature and the celebration of our unique southern cultural identity.
Our mission is to provide a holistic education that guarantees equal opportunities, human rights, and the preservation of our natural, cultural, and artistic heritage,
while encouraging cooperation, autonomy, creativity, play, and the joy of discovery.
“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community is reflected, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each individual lives.”
— Rudolf Steiner