Cuban education program reaches millions worldwide

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Cuban education program reaches millions worldwide
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HAVANA -- (AP) -- A Cuban literacy program has taught more than three million people -- about half of them in Venezuela -- how to read and write over a little more than a decade, Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gomez said Tuesday.
Gomez offered new statistics about the program while announcing a literacy congress to be held in Havana in June.

The ''Yes, I Can!'' program, developed in Cuba nearly 12 years ago, has been praised by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Cuba has since sent about 700 educators to 28 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Haiti, Mexico, Mozambique, Panama, Nigeria and East Timor. Educators in those countries get materials in the local language and a teaching method.

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