Over 40,000 Illiterate Mexicans Learn to Read and Write
 Prensa Latina
| | According to data of a census conducted in Michoacan in 2000, there were more than 344,000 illiterate people. |
Michoacan, Mexico - More than 40,000 people in the Mexican northwestern state of Michoacan have left illiteracy behind, thanks to a new Cuban method to teach how to read and write called Alfa TV, which was implemented in 36 municipalities of Michoacan.
Their official graduation will be Monday in Morelia, the state capital, putting an the end to 19 months of intensive work, coordinator of the mission Guanin Valle told Prensa Latina.
Valle also said that another 60,000 citizens have joined the Alfa TV Program, supervised by 32 Cuban specialists, at a rate of 1,000 every week.
This literacy campaign has extended even to prisons (Ceresos) in the state of Michoacan, and at least five inmates have graduated.
Valle highlighted the work of more than 4,000 volunteers working in the campaign, who teach the classes using television and video tapes.
According to data of a census conducted in Michoacan in 2000, there were more than 344,000 illiterate people, that is, 13.8 percent of the total population.
Cuban teachers have set the goal to reduce that number by 10 percent by August 2007, Valle said.
Besides the Alfa TV Program, there are Cuban specialists working in another two projects in three municipalities of Michoacan: one for mothers with children under six years and the other on the quality of education in primary schools. |
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News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2005 
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