Bolivia Marks Int’l Literacy Day

Oruro, Bolivia, Sep 8. -Bolivian teachers and students, as well as Cuban collaborators and diplomats, are celebrating International Literacy Day on Thursday.Vivian Hernandez, chief of the Cuban-Venezuelan Education Mission in Bolivia, told reporters that they are also celebrating the fact that 58,590 students have joined the National Post-Literacy Program, which uses the method "Yo, si puedo seguir" (Yes, I Can Continue).

Hernandez said that in Oruro, where more than 10,000 people are participating in the program, nearly 6,200 students have passed the second and third grade.

Adult students will give talks on what they learned and its link with productive eduation, and give cultural presentations, she said.

Bolivia was declared an illiteracy-free territory on December 20, 2008, the third country in Latin America to attain that status, following Cuba in 1961, and Venezuela in 2005.

More than 820,000 people have learned how to read and write with the Cuban method "Yo, si puedo" (Yes, I Can). (Prensa Latina)