Throughout the island, youth will mobilize to support activities related to food production and recovery from recent weather events.

According to the call of the Young Communist League (UJC), the participants will also collaborate with the rescue of organoponics, the constructive maintenance of health centers, and education, the coffee harvest, the sugar harvest, sanitation, and hygiene, among other tasks.

Yasmany Rodríguez, a member of the National Bureau of the UJC, explained to the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, that the objective will be to achieve an organized, massive, and productive day, “in which youth with their contribution in the voluntary work pay the deserved tribute to who was their greatest inspiration and example the Heroic Guerrilla.” On November 23, 1959, the first day of voluntary work was carried out in El Caney de las Mercedes, municipality of Bartolomé Masó, Santiago de Cuba, headed by Ernesto Che Guevara.

The idea arose to build a School City for 20 thousand children, children of peasants of the Sierra Maestra, which would become, in the words of Che, “a permanent symbol of the worker-peasant alliance where our revolutionary power is based.”

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