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Cubans Help Disabled People in Bolivia Learn to Read and Write.

CUBA, November 8, 2010.-  Cuban pedagogues contributed to the teaching of basic literacy to over 270 Bolivians with different limitations in their physical and motor functions.

A ceremony to present them with their certificates as graduates was held on Friday.

Cuban consultant Yusimi Hernandez told the Prensa Latina news agency that the disabled who learned how to read and write by way of the program created by methodologists, with the help of Venezuela and Spain, participated in the ceremony, held in the city of El Alto.

She specified that this is the first graduation of this kind, in which mostly low-income citizens from nine municipalities in the region of La Paz will receive their certificates. She said that reaching these people with special characteristics is the result of the strategy of President Evo Morales, which establishes the inclusive nature of education.

The disabled that participated in these courses were identified thanks to the work of the Moto Mendez mission of solidarity, a study carried out with the cooperation of Cuba and Venezuela that concluded on August 13.

A total of 824,000 illiterate individuals from that Andean nation learned how to read and write by way of the Cuban method "Yes I Can," used between March, 2006, and December, 2008, many of them in their native languages, Aymara and Quechua.

From that figure, more than 175,500 are registered in the post-literacy teaching plan, in order to achieve a 6th grade level education. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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