jueves, 28 de mayo de 2009

Cuba guarantees the education to visual faulty children

Bejucal. One registers of 54 students coming from 15 municipalities welcomes the special school for visual faulty children “The Pioneers”, of the county of Havana.

With this facility the country completed the program of entities specialized in its 14 counties and the special municipality of Island of the Youth that assist on the whole around a thousand of students with the referred limitations.

Aimé Vega Delgado, directress of the facility, said that there prepare amblíops and estrabics students, blind and of low vision, and a blind deaf girl with coclear implants that has an alone teacher for her.

Also those students, pointed, receive treatment to improve or to conserve their vision, by means of attendance to oftalmológyc consultations that are carried out in the own center, assisted by specialized personnel.

“The Pioneers” have 80 workers, of them 45 educational, among those that the invident professor Osvaldo Álvarez Guzmán, several years National Vanguard and creator of materials for the teaching of those students, reason why has been recognized by the Forum of Science and Technique.

Before 1959, Cuba only had a school of that type of special teaching, located in the capital, which had, by the way, a reduced capacity to assist children and young of the whole nation.(Félix Milián)

In Camagüey economic losses and damage to the environment for forest fire

Camagüey. A notable negative impact to the environment and near economic losses to the 39 million pesos, caused the fire in the solid forest San Felipe - The Joberos, happened at the end of March and beginnings of April, to the north of the city of Camagüey.

This Wednesday was informed this way when presenting the final evaluation on that disaster, in an appointment that had the attendance of specialists of the county and integral of the National Group for the Evaluation of Risks of the Agency of Environment.


Information transmitted by the local telecenter when being suffocated the catastrophe.
In accordance with the investigation, the fire in the solid forest San Felipe - The Joberos was conditioned by the accumulation of dry combustible material and in decomposition, propitiated by the step of the hurricane Ike and for a period of intense drought.

Starting from those conclusions organizational measures are recommended that guarantee to face the forest fires quickly and effectiveness and to increase the actions of environmental education in the community Pontezuela and in units silvícols of the municipalities of Camagüey and Esmeralda.

The evaluation of the impact of the fire in San Felipe - The Joberos was led by the Center of Investigations of the Environment of Camagüey and had the collaboration of the Body of Keepers, Meteorology, Provincial Laboratory of Floors, Forest Company and other entities. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez)