With your support, Maloka Science Museum will offer forty (40) Venezuelan migrant children a scholarship to participate in a weeklong science summer camp where they will reignite their passion for learning and find a safe and fun educational space in a city with little options for them and their families. The day camp for children 7 to 12 includes bio and technology learning activities, museum exhibit tours, science-themed movies, daily snacks, lunches and camp counselors.
Over 1,300,000 Venezuelans have migrated to Colombia in the past 10 years: Bogota is the city that has received the highest number of migrants, many of them, children. Although the city has mobilized resources to receive migrant children in public schools, during school breaks, vulnerable migrant families have little to none options for their children, forcing them to include them in potentially dangerous settings and activities such as asking for money on the streets.
Science-based educational and recreational activities in a fun and safe environment, like Maloka's Interactive Center, empower migrant children and families enabling them to learn about themselves and the world around them while they build resilience and acquire knowledge and skills needed to live productive and fulfilling lives. While migrant parents and caregivers continue to work and assimilate to their new settings, children will build resilience through robotics, technology, and dinosaurs.
At Maloka we believe that by fostering the appropriation of science, technology, and innovation, we enrich citizen culture and, with this project, in particular, we offer a real option for migrant families who want to offer their children scientific skills for their future in their new context.
