Juan Barbero and Carolina Crosa, immigrants from Piamonte, reached Paraguay when the Paraguayan War had just finished.
He conducted extensive research alongside other scientists, such as Emilio Hassler, Guillermo Tell Bertoni, and the Paraguayan Teodoro Rojas.
He personally funded several of the organizations he helped establish, including the Red Cross, the Cancer Institute, the Scientific Society, a children’s hospital, and an ophthalmology center.
He also financed the construction of a three-story building at the corner of España Avenue and Mompox, which housed many of his scientific institutions, with support from the Barbero Foundation.
This respectable institution allows keeping in force the different associations that gather men that search the improvement of the social and cultural conditions of the citizenship, in time of paying homage to the humanitarian and solidarity of its creator.