All Guatemalan Regions
Improve Illiteracy Rates
GUATEMALA - The 22 Guatemalan departments
are currently covered with advisors of the
Cuban literacy program "Yo, Si Puedo" (Yes,
I Can), through which a full municipality is
already free of illiteracy.
This was one of the achievements highlighted
by Barbara Roque, coordinator of the
island's collaborators. She told Prensa
Latina the purpose of declaring an identical
territory in that category.
San Cristobal Acasaguastlan, from El
Progreso department, was the first
municipality in reaching that goal. This was
celebrated in January during an act in the
presence of the Republic's President Alvaro
Colom.
According to Roque, Santa Maria Visitacion (Solola)
will do it in April, but not only in that
kind of division.
Another seven communities will also join
this project since the program started in
June 2008.
People from five communities have already
taught to read and write, but they are
pending of being approved by the UNESCO,
Roque stated. |
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