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Judi Lynn

(160,540 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 11:51 PM Sep 2016

Panama Reduces Number of Illiteracy People with Cuban Method

Panama Reduces Number of Illiteracy People with Cuban Method



Panama, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) In nine years, Panama managed to reduce the number of uncultured on having alphabetized 70, 794 persons, thanks to the Cuban program ''Yo Si Puedo '' (Yes, I Can), recounts today a report by the Department of Social Development.

According to the director of the program of literacy Move for Panama, Armando Escarreola, the number corresponds to the years (2007-2016) of execution of the Cuban method, which reaches the 10-year-old population and older, who, for certain motives, was not present at classes.

Escarreola added that during the current administration they managed to alphabetize, until last August, approximately three thousand 238 persons in 10 provinces and three regions of the country, which in his big majority continue the primary studies in the programs of young people and adults of the Department of Education.

Up to now, the program is provided with 198 volunteers in the whole national territory and 217 areas of meeting in functioning, equipped with a TV set, DVD, board, draft, chalk and a set of classes in CD, sufficient hardware to teach to read and to write, across a method that combines the numbers and the lettering.

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Panama Reduces Number of Illiteracy People with Cuban Method (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP
Not a very literate story. nt. marybourg Sep 2016 #1
Probably software-translated from Spanish teach1st Sep 2016 #2
The story, which is very good news, was written in spanish. Thank you for caring. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #3

teach1st

(5,935 posts)
2. Probably software-translated from Spanish
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:55 AM
Sep 2016

I'm not familiar with Spanish, but I do have to translate it often, and Spanish-speaking parents and students have told me the translations make me seem illiterate in Spanish, just as they seem in English after I've translated their Spanish.

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