AS the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003 - 2012) ends, the number of people in the world who are still illiterate is alarming: 64.7 million children have received no formal schooling and 793 million adults remain illiterate.
Cuba undertook a year-long national literacy campaign in 1961 and proclaimed it a territory free of illiteracy.
But the country's efforts did not stop there. The Yo si puedo (Yes, I Can) program came into being in 2000 following the basic principles of the original Cuban Literacy Campaign. The Yo si puedo project has been implemented in more than 30 countries.
Cuba undertook a year-long national literacy campaign in 1961 and proclaimed it a territory free of illiteracy.
But the country's efforts did not stop there. The Yo si puedo (Yes, I Can) program came into being in 2000 following the basic principles of the original Cuban Literacy Campaign. The Yo si puedo project has been implemented in more than 30 countries.
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