It operated from 1971 to 1974 in the Old City of Montevideo and came to protect more than 100 children.
The Collective Memoria en Libertad, which brings together “girls, boys, and adolescents who are victims of State Terrorism,” promoted the placement of a plaque in front of where the daycare center operated to preserve it as a place of memory.
From the collective it was expressed that Andresito “was a place of protection and love in which many of us and other children attended during the period of State terrorism when our families were persecuted, or were imprisoned, or clandestine.”
In the absence of due State protection, the protection offered by the Andresito Nursery was organized by individuals, social organizations and unions, even at the risk of reprisals from a State that had already been acting illegitimately.
After several years of procedures, the Departmental Board empowered the executive of the capital to place a commemorative plaque on the pedestrian street located at 1413 Pérez Castellanos Street, in front of the house where the daycare center operated.
Finally last Friday the plaque was placed in a ceremony in which the Mayor of Montevideo Carolina Cosse participated.
It is a forged iron structure designed by the Fine Arts teacher Francesca Cassariego and assembled by the architect Mauricio Arriola.
Cassariego commented to Grupo R Multimedia that the work “refers to the union, to the need to support each other, in solidarity and camaraderie, in addition to the game and fantasy of the children’s world,” he said, adding that: “it is fundamental preserve memory, these marks as signs transport us to other times and help us to always remember, because forgetting and memory go hand in hand, and it is important to reach a social consensus on what we remember”, he concluded.
