UNESCO awards Cuban agency literacy prize

[Judi Lynn]

UPDATED: 13:35, June 21, 2006
UNESCO awards Cuban agency literacy prize

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded Cuba's Latin American and Caribbean Educational Agency the 2006 Rey Sejong Literacy Prize for its Yo Si Puedo (Yes I can) literacy program, Cuba's official newspaper Granma said on Tuesday.

The UNESCO committee which includes judges from the United States, Ecuador, South Korea, China, Senegale and Syria, described the Cuban program as innovative, flexible and applicable.

The program has been tested in both rural and urban areas, and Cuban teachers have managed to design a model that contains measures which allow teachers to see the impact of developing literacy in the family and the community as well as the individual.

Hecto Hernandez Pardo, Cuba's representative to UNESCO, said that the award was for a program that was specifically designed to help teach literacy overseas.
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