BENEFITS OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Talking about multicultural education may seem repetitive and redundant if we refer the discourse to a privileged school context, attended by students belonging to wealthy families. The discourse may change if we consider a different type of schools, particularly schools with a huge lack of benefits, facilities and materials. Children belonging to the poorest quarters or villages often attend this kind of schools; their chance to learn is limited to school possibilities. Any other kind of knowledge is not affordable or very difficult to obtain. Associations like HEEALS, not only give them a general knowledge about basic habits that helps to maintain them healthy, but also give them the chance to be in contact with interns coming from all over the world. This contact is the bridge that introduces them to all worlds’ cultures, without travel. One of the first results of this positive cultural contamination is the increase of curios...