Community Impact
Students are highly involved with the neighboring communities, and the school recently inaugurated a public library featuring over 3000 titles available to low-income students of public schools. Gimnasianos also volunteer many hours of community service and every Friday donate groceries and non-perishable items to be distributed among low income families of nearby neighborhoods.
Its Alumni Association] has maintained a network of former students that expands over five decades and several generations, providing services such as a job bank and a bi-monthly newsletter that help reinforce the bonds created by classmates and their families during the thirteen years of shared experiences at the school.
Today, the Gimnasio Campestre's headmaster is Dr. Alfonso Casas' son, Juan Antonio, who assumed his position in early 2006, when Jaime Bernal decided to continue his career as an educator at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, also located in Bogota.
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