HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) Honduras will receive financing from the Bolivarian Alternative for The Americas (ALBA), in order to declare that nation free of illiteracy in January 2010, a campaign that will count on Cuba’s advice.
Education Minister Marlon Brevé said that the Venezuelan donation, consisting of ten million dollars, will make it possible to complete the necessary resources to fight this decisive educational battle.
The Minister pointed out that the first benefits in this regard began in 2008, with the delivery of just over a million dollars, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
The elimination of illiteracy with the help of the Cuban method, Yes I Can, is one of the main legacies that President Manuel Zelaya hopes to leave when he finishes his term of office.
At present, the Central American nation has some 750,000 illiterates, but, over the last three years, 250,000 Hondurans have learned how to read and write by way of the program devised in Cuba.
For the time being, the goal is to bring the number of illiterates down to 4%, the average rate demanded by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization in order to declare a nation free of that scourge.
The Honduran minister announced that the official declaration of the first eight municipalities free of illiteracy will be made in April 17.
Moreover, a new project to increase the educational level of those who have already learned how to read and write, by way of the plan called “I Can Continue”, which students will pass in a period ranging from two to three years, is under study.
(Apoya el ALBA la alfabetización de Honduras)
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