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Post-literacy Programs to Be Implemented in Bolivia
Bolivia’s Ministry of Education will inaugurate today the second stage of the “Yes, I can go on” post-literacy campaign, supported by Cuba and Venezuela.
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Bolivia’s Ministry of Education will inaugurate today the second stage of the “Yes, I can go on” post-literacy campaign, supported by Cuba and Venezuela.
Accord ing to Benito Ayma, director general of the campaign, the objective is to attract over 100,000 people from all over the country. The official inauguration of this new teaching year will take place in the city of Yacuiba, in Tarija, southern Bolivia.
Ayma explained that the program begins with an update course of 23 classes aimed at improving the reading, writing and comprehension skills they developed in the previous stage. He said that to implement this program some 7,000 people were trained to teach in a similar number of locations.
The plan is to teach them contents corresponding to the fifth grade level. The first part of the plan will take care of 52,237 students, most of whom took part in the previous stage, known as “Yes, I can”, which allowed Bolivia proclaim itself a country free of illiteracy on December 20, 2008. Inaugurated in March by President Evo Morales, the post-literacy campaign in Bolivia is expected to benefit more than one million people for 2010.
Accord ing to Benito Ayma, director general of the campaign, the objective is to attract over 100,000 people from all over the country. The official inauguration of this new teaching year will take place in the city of Yacuiba, in Tarija, southern Bolivia.
Ayma explained that the program begins with an update course of 23 classes aimed at improving the reading, writing and comprehension skills they developed in the previous stage. He said that to implement this program some 7,000 people were trained to teach in a similar number of locations.
The plan is to teach them contents corresponding to the fifth grade level. The first part of the plan will take care of 52,237 students, most of whom took part in the previous stage, known as “Yes, I can”, which allowed Bolivia proclaim itself a country free of illiteracy on December 20, 2008. Inaugurated in March by President Evo Morales, the post-literacy campaign in Bolivia is expected to benefit more than one million people for 2010.