Remind anniversary 50 of the Cuban Voluntary Teachers

[Members of the Contingent of Camagüey that went to Fidel's call to teach in the rural areas, there were gathered in the Museum Native House of The Mayor Ignacio Agramonte.]

Members of the Contingent of Camagüey that went to Fidel's call to teach in the rural areas , there were gathered in the Museum Native House of The Mayor Ignacio Agramonte.
People of Camagüey ex-members of the contingents of Voluntary Teachers commemorated today their presence in that task that Fidel summoned in 1960 inserted in the first educational revolution in Cuba.

Gathered when being completed to the anniversary 50 of the call, they evoked anecdotes and satisfactions about their incorporation to a national juvenile mission, one of whose objectives went to impart classes to residents of rural areas, among them, the Sierra Maestra.

The encounter included the presentation of the unpublished book The History of the Voluntary Teachers, in the one which Armando Guerrero Hidalgo gathers his testimonies and of other colleagues in connection with that geste attacked mainly in isolated areas and of difficult access.

Students of facilities of professors' formation, of institutes of second teaching and of trade schools were among those added to the contingents that received in the Sierra Maestra a preparation of pedagogic content and physical training.

The literacy brigades Conrado Benítez, formed for more than 100 thousand young, took the name of one of the incorporate to the movement of the Voluntary Teachers, and who January 5, 1961 were murdered by contrarrevolutionaries bandits in the Escambray. (Adolfo Silva Silva )