At the facility, surrounded by four wooded hectares within the city, the visitors learned about the different projects for environmental preservation and social inclusion that are being developed there, and met with children and young people with special educational needs and their families.

Psycho-ballet workshops, choral interpretation, community environmental education, gardening, and martial arts are part of the daily activities at the site, which houses the oldest botanical garden in Cuba, which consists of 16 endemic species of the national flora, fountains and ponds.

Such initiatives of this state corporation (medium-sized company), attached to the Office of the City Historian, also offer paid assisted employment, mainly in gardening and computer assistants, to about fifty young people with disabilities.

The diplomats also visited the Museum dedicated to Máximo Gómez (Bani 1836-Havana 1905) in the mansion where the Dominican military officer from the Ten Years’ War and commander-in-chief of the Cuban revolutionary troops during the struggle for independence that began in 1895, resided briefly after the conflict was over.

A choir from the center and the performance of the children’s theater group La Colmenita enlivened the meeting.

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