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Cuba Celebrates Int’l Children’s Day.
 
HAVANA, Cuba, June 1, 2011.- Nationwide celebrations to mark International Children’s Day began on Wednesday morning in all Cuban elementary and secondary schools, parks, museums, plazas, and many other places.

Manuel Valera, vice president of the Jose Marti Pioneer Children’s Organization of Cuba (OPJM) —which groups students of the elementary and high-school levels—, said the


program includes cultural and sports activities, and exhibitions of the Cuban Movement of Pioneer Children Scouts.

“Our children and adolescents will send a message of love, joy, and faith in a better world, from Cuba, a mainstay of children’s hope and protection,” he added.

“On a date like this, Cuba has the rare privilege to further improve the children’s quality of life and, against all odds, defend their rights, which are equally guaranteed to all of them, even before they are born,” Valera told ACN.

Also scheduled to take place to mark the date, and prior to the celebration of Children’s Day in Cuba on July 17, is the 19th National Festival of Children’s Songs ‘Cantandole al Sol’.

Valera pointed out that Pioneer Children Scouts will also carry out reforestation actions in all the provinces of the country as part of a series of activities to mark the World Environment Day on June 5.

The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 as International Children’s Day in 1925. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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