Guatemala Spreads Cuban
Method Yo Si Puedo
Guatemala - The Cuban
method literacy Yo Si
Puedo, (Yes I Can) will
be extended in the
Guatemalan national
territory, starting from
January 22 of the
municipalities
considered today among
the poorest in Guatemala
and it will be taught in
Spanish, mam and quiché
languages.
That program allows to
learn how to read and
write in hardly seven
weeks, it began to be
applied in this country
in 2007 and has already
taught more than 1, 200
people, political
consultant of the Cuban
Embassy Santiago Feliu
informed to Prensa
Latina Saturday.
Only in this month of
December, 144
Guatemalans of different
ages graduated in the
municipalities of Santa
Catarina Pinula,
Pastores and Cobán, he
specified.
It was in Santa Lucía
Cotzumalguapa, in the
southern department of
Escuintla, where the
method began in this
country, a novel system
based on the combination
of letters and numbers.
"The experience was very
pretty because we could
interact with very poor
people that needed to
learn and there the
village, named El
Naranjo, was declared as
the first free territory
of illiteracy", the
professor Noel Rodríguez
added.
In accordance with the
teachers, the method has
many advantages
regarding others because
its form of applying is
interesting, the time of
learning is very short
and comes from known
things to those ones
which are ignored.
In Guatemala, the index
of illiteracy is about
30 percent and the
current government's
disposition is to reduce
it at least down to 12
percent.
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