Divertigranja is a farm and petting zoo for children with and without disabilities.

Our themes of education are animal diversity, plant life, and planet ecology, all within the framework of teaching the acceptance of and incorporation into mexican society people with different capacities.

We have three basic formats for groups of children to visit our farm. The first format is for groups of children from public schools where children with disabilities do not have access.

The second format is for groups of children with special needs, whether they are enrolled in private school or have no form of formal education available to them.

The third format is for children from both of these types of groups to visit us at the same time and tour the farm together teamed up as buddies.

When children without disabilities visit our farm, they have the opportunity to experience a little of what it is like to live with a disability. We provide courses in sensibility towards people with disabilities as outlined in the section “five exercises” where the children experience the sensation of having a disability during the course of the tour of the farm. After the tour, we have a discussion about their experiences at the farm and in their normal lives.

When a group of children with disabilities visits our farm, the focus is on their tactile, visual, olfactory experience with animals. Most often, a child with a disability grows up without animal contact as his or her parents have neither the time nor resources to have animals in the house. These children need no sensitivity training in what it is like to live with a disability, instead they need a chance to feel accepted and permitted to experience activities normally reserved for healthy children.

When children from both of these two groups visits us at the same time, we try to merge the activities and objectives outlined above to one unique combined experience. The children experience partnership and coexistence and learn acceptance, capability and autonomy.