• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 13 / 2010

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LA PAZ - Fifty thousand Bolivians will join the national post-literacy campaign during a ceremony on Wednesday in the municipality of Pucarani, La Paz,education authorities announced.

At the World Literacy Day celebration, moreover, the first beneficiaries of the "Yo si puedo seguir" (Yes, I Can Continue) program will receive their certificates, said Benito Ayma, director of the campaign.

Similar celebrations were to be held in every department, he said.

Both the literacy and post-literacy programs are supported by Cuba and Venezuela.

The post-literacy program provides the equivalent of a sixth-grade education through classes on history, mathematic, language, natural science and geography for two years.

The main goal of the program is to benefit 225,000 citizens by the end of 2010 and to add half a million citizens by the end of 2013, Ayma told Prensa Latina.

In 2008 Bolivia became the third Latin American country to declare itself free of illiteracy, after Cuba (1961) and Venezuela (2005).

More than 823,000 people have learned how to read and write with the Cuban method, "Yo sí puedo" (Yes, I Can).

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/117675