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• 01 / 09 / 2010

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Children from the La Colmenita theater group are still amazed, because of success enjoyed and the fabulous welcome with the presentations of the great musical piece La Cucarachita Martina and the successful Y sin embargo, se mueve has had in
Sevillian soil.

The event was the closing ceremony for the first graduation of 200 people who learned to read and write, thanks to the Cuban method Yo sí puedo.

It turns out that Lía, Magela, Olito, Sheila, Caterín, Marsán, María Carla, Wendy, Alá, Luisito, Ernestico, Danielito, Rocío, Lilita, Jico, Carolina, Ingrid and Robert were surprised to learn that in a city of the First World such as Seville, with a population of 700 000 inhabitants, “there are officially, 35 000 people who cannot read or write, apart from the fact that 40 percent of that Spanish population is functionally illiterate.”

Carlos Alberto Cremata, director of the group and also an Ambassador of Good Will from UNICEF, is on tour around the European country.

“I share with you some of the feelings experienced by those of us who had the privilege to coincide with an absolutely historical moment.

Just imagine there was a very old lady, seventy something, who had just become literate, and who cried and cried in her home with her family, when she was able to read the postcards who had sent her, her husband (already deceased) fifty years ago, when he was undergoing military service.

They say, her children would tell her: Mum, why are you crying so much? And she would answer, Because I am falling in love with your father all over again!”

“We were also told that other women who passed the course and who graduated were unable to assist to the event, because her husband could not know this. And that is because they undergo a very strong level of domestic violence. They would sneak
from the house for two hours and go to the Yo sí puedo workstation and so they made it.”

Asked about the details of the event, Mr. Cremata said it was “a wonderful show, despite the fact that was raining heavily outside. Despite this, the sports building, where it took place remained full of people.

We opened up with Venga la Esperanza and after the intervention of our ambassador in that country, Alejandro González Galiano, we played the Son de la Alfabetización by Carlos Puebla.”

“Those present began applauding when we performed Preciosa (according to some opinions, the theme that impressed the people the most), before closing, after the titles were handed in with a potpourri by Van Van, that made everyone stand.

The guys played it so wonderfully well that it seemed to be the same one by Juan Formell”.

Source: www.jrebelde.cubaweb.cu