Great Progress in
Nicaraguan Literacy
Campaign
Managua - The Nicaraguan
authorities got
important achievements
in their thirst for
declaring Nicaragua free
of illiterate people on
July 19, 2009, said
Mario Rivera, president
of the Sandinista Young
People League Friday.
Rivera said that the
intense literacy
campaign displayed in
the country will let the
authorities reach nearly
6 percent or less of
illiterate people in
January 2009.
A total of 56 Nicaraguan
municipalities have now
4 percent of their
population who do not
know how to read and
write. Even some have 2
percent of the
population, such as
Managua, the capital,
where the index reaches
1.84 percent.
The great concern of the
organizers of the quest
is letting people know
that they know how to
read and write, and get
incorporated to other
alternatives to continue
their own education.
“If we get this, we will
avoid the setback
affecting our population
in years under the other
government, in which
statistics increased,
after what we reached as
a country in the first
stage,” Rivera stated.
He highlighted the work
of a contingent formed
by Cuban and Nicaraguan
teachers under the
sponsoring of the
Bolivarian Alternative
for the Peoples of Our
America (ALBA), and now,
all the municipal
capitals are covered
with the presence of
these teachers.
Rivera pointed out the
Nicaraguan government
wants to go over the
plan to have less than 5
percent of illiterate
people, and continue
educating others,
including deaf, blind
and mute people.
Nowadays Nicaragua
presents the smallest
illiterate people index
in its history, with
7.48 percent.
The crusade greets the
30th Anniversary of the
Sandinista Revolution on
July 19. |
