Ceremony in Jamaica on Cuba's Literacy Teaching Program

HAVANA, Cuba, April 30 (acn) Jamaica's Minister of State, Robert Monteague, and religious leaders from that island presided over the graduation of 14 facilitators and 8 participants in the pilot program of the country's literacy teaching project using the 'Yes I Can' Cuban
teaching method.

The activity, held at the Anglican Church of Gayle, St. Mary, was attended by the Cuban ambassador in Kingston, Gisela García; Cooperation Office official Jorge Crespo; the representative of Cuba's Ministry of Education in Jamaica, Ángel Bravo; and lecturers working in that nation.

Participants in the program expressed their appreciation to the Cuban government for its cooperation and read messages from those who had learned how to read and write, who for the first time could read a text in English, receiving applause and praise from those present in the
ceremony.

An acknowledgement was made of the work of the project's coordinator, Eduardo Orrely Herrera, for his devotion to the task of teaching the students to read and write and preparing facilitators, who're ready to move on to the second stage of the project.

Pedagogue Leonela Relys Díaz, from eastern Camagüey province, is the author of 'Yes I Can', an audiovisual program awarded by UNESCO, at whose disposal Cuba has put this method, free of charge, and which has already born fruit in countries of Latin America, Africa and Oceania.

(Acto en Jamaica por inicio de programa "Yo sí puedo")