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Bolivians Thank Cuba for Aid in Education.

CUBA, August 9, 2011.- Bolivia’s Deputy Minister of Justice, Nelson Cox, highlighted on Tuesday the progress made in the interests of indigenous populations, like the eradication of illiteracy in rural areas by way of the program “Yes, I Can,” with the help of Cuba and Venezuela.

Cox spoke on Tuesday during a meeting on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

He recalled that, for the defense of the rights of these sectors, the government of La Paz worked as of 2006 on the formulation of the National Plan of Action of Human Rights to Live Well (Plan Nacional de Accion de Derechos Humanos para Vivir Bien), to which communities made contributions with their demands.

The Deputy Minister praised the literacy teaching method “Yes, I Can,” developed by Cuban Leonela Relys, an educational program to teach adults how to read and write, which has so far helped about five millions people in some 30 nations stop being illiterates.

The program was born on March 28, 2001, when the Cuban government asked this pedagogue to create a literacy teaching manual of not more than five pages, which combined letters and numbers.

Since its creation, it was conceived as a project of internationalist nature, prepared to be adapted to different social realities and languages.

The first country from Latin America to declare itself Free of Illiteracy was Cuba, in 1961, followed by Venezuela (2005), Bolivia (2008), Nicaragua and Ecuador (2009). (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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