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Venezuela: 18,000 Disabled People to Classes
Caracas - A total of 18,000 Venezuelan
disabled citizens will be included into the national
education system in September, thanks to the opening
of 1,104 classrooms, said the Venezuelan Education
Ministry Tuesday.
Classrooms are constructed by the Venezuelan
Education Ministry together with the Ministry of
Public Health and Social Protection.
This is one of the results given by the Jose
Gregorio Hernandez Mission, with the participation
of Cuban experts.
Venezuelan Education Vice Minister Edgar Leon
delivered some resources for the special education
system at the municiplaity of Uracoa, state of
Monagas.
The Jose Gregorio Hernandez Mission made possible
the identification of 336,000 disabled people in the
entire nation.
Of that total, almost 22,000 were not taken care by
the school system. Now, 4,000 people were
incorporated and the rest will be incorporated in
the 2009-2010 school course.
Leon said that population is between 5 and 19 years
of age. The resources were given by Petroleos de
Venezuela (PVDSA) and the Ministry of Education. |
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