{UAH} The Legendary Revolutianary Fidel Castro

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Today on 12-22-1961 
Cuba was declared illiteracy-free! 🇨🇺❤️️📚📖✏️

In 1961, the government of Fidel Castro embarked on a year-long mission to end illiteracy in the country. When Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement overthrew the U.S.-backed dictator President Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959, the new revolutionary government inherited a country with a literacy rate as low as 60 percent.

The Cuban Literacy Campaign gathered over 250,000 volunteer teachers spread to answer the call for a literate Cuba. 100,000 were under the age of 18 and half of them were women. After training teachers were sent to remote parts of the country to teach and live with the families they would be serving.

In 1961, the revolutionary Cuban government also nationalized all educational institutions, ensuring every child had a human right to free, quality education.

The campaign was widely successful and today Cuba's literacy rate stands at 99.8%. Today, more than 10 million people from over 30 countries have learned to read and write through Cuba's Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can) program, which operates in countries ranging from Spain to Venezuela. The program provides free education to poor adults who lacked opportunities to learn to read and write as children.
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