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Over 400,000 Hondurans learn to read and write with Cuba’s assistance

Tegucigalpa, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Honduran Education Minister Daniel Sponda celebrated on Thursday that hundreds of thousands of compatriots have learned to read and write with the program of President Xiomara Castro's Government with advice from Cuba.

We have managed to teach more than 400,000 people to read and write in two years. We are just a few months away from declaring Honduras, for the first time in history, free of illiteracy, the minister wrote on his X profile.

Sponda pointed out that the task does not end there, because all those who are literate must take the next step, which is enrolling in accelerated primary education.

A week ago, the Honduran Government declared the northern department of Atlántida free of illiteracy, the ninth of the 18 regions in the country to achieve this goal with the collaboration of Cuban professionals.

This achievement was possible thanks to the José Manuel Flores Arguijo National Literacy Program, promoted by the Castro administration with the successful Cuban methodology “Yo, Sí Puedo” (Yes, I Can).

The initiative aims to guarantee the right to education for the most vulnerable sectors in Honduras, since literacy opens doors to new opportunities, improves the quality of life and strengthens communities.

“Yo, Sí Puedo” is a Cuban teaching method in which numbers are used to facilitate the learning process of reading and writing by associating numbers with letters.

The main objective is to achieve that the 298 municipalities in the country are declared free of illiteracy.

The next stage of the well-known method establishes that literate adults can follow a process of accelerated primary education, which is contemplated in the program “Yo Sí Puedo Seguir” (Yes, I Can Continue), the path to post-literacy.

More than 10 million people in thirty countries have been taught to read and write with the system created in Cuba.

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