Cuban Method Schools
Guatemalan Town
The Guatemalan community
of El Naranjo, in the
department of Escuintla,
is the first Guatemalan
community free of
illiteracy thanks to the
application of the Cuban
teaching method "Yo Si
Puedo."
Five hundred people
attended the graduation
ceremony in that village
on Friday, where 63
people, ranging from 10
to 78 years of age,
received their diplomas
attesting they have
learned to read and
write by means of this
new program.
Santa Lucia
Cotzumalguapa Mayor
Julio Paz handed El
Naranjo authorities a
flag as a sign their
community is completely
literate, and Cuban
Embassy political
advisor Santiago Feliu
remarked that this
achievement shows
illiteracy can be
eliminated where there
is a will.
The two-month literacy
program, which uses
television, was directed
by Professors Noel
Rodriguez and Enrique
Marbot, of the Latin
American and Caribbean
Pedagogic Institute in
Havana, and had the
support of six
facilitators.
This quick and effective
method, which combines
letters and numbers,
will now be extended to
the entire municipality
of Santa Lucia
Cotzumalguapa's 86,000
inhabitants.
"Yo Si Puedo" has thus
far been used
successfully to teach
more than two million
people to read and write
in 15 Latin American
countries and 22 in the
world.
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