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Angola Extols Cuban Collaboration in Education

CUBA, November 24th, 2010.- Angolan authorities acknowledged Cuban educational collaboration programs, noting that as a result, illiteracy dropped from 85% in 1975 to 30% at present.

In a meeting marking the Teachers’ Day, Luanda’s governor Francisca do Espirito Santo thanked Cuban education expert Luis Ramirez Villasana and other Cuban teachers who contributed to providing basic education to thousands of Angolans.

Ramirez Villasana, who was present at the meeting, participated in Angola’s literacy campaign when it was first launched by Agostinho Neto on November 22, 1976.

Five hundred graduates received their graduate certificates on behalf of all those who have learned to read and write through Cuban collaboration programs at the event.

Ramirez Villasana noted that within the first four years of the literacy campaign more than one million people learned to read and write, and stated “Angola has been transformed under an environment of peace and social progress.”

Cuban teachers continue to bring education to remote areas of Angola with the Yes, I Can teaching method. (Cubaminrex - ACN-RHC)

 

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