Literacy Facts from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua

In Brazil there are at least 10% of adult non-literates, it has a large impact on the school system. Because children who grow up in homes of parents suffer from non-literates parents and can’t make a good of studies or get guidelines from parents to get higher and advance level studies in school. They go to school, but when they arrive at home there's nothing that enhances learning or support from illiterate parents. (Education Magazine).

Literacy in Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua:

There have been repeated attempts by individual countries in the short term to increase the literacy rate. As recorded in the history of education, the literacy campaign started in Nicaragua in the early 1980s, After the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, Sandinista government said that, the literacy of the country is one of its main missions. And consider it "crusade against ignorance," drew about 100,000 volunteers in the remote villages of rural areas and were taught successfully, sometimes in three shifts per day. In the short time of just two years it was possible from 65% to 12% reduce in illiteracy rate. After the defeat of the Sandinista government in 1990 efforts were scaled back in the education system. There are currently attending schools one third of children in Nicaragua – and still about 800,000 have no school. According to the relevant Human Development Report 1990, the illiteracy rate stood at 19.0%, in 2005, it amounted to 23.3% with the increase in population.

                                                      

Cuba

Other campaigns, such as the Cuban literacy campaign, achieved a long-term success.

Mexico

Avila Camacho published that President of Mexico in 1944, called for the relief of illiteracy . Under the title "¡Oyed" ("Listen!") in the press were all read and literate people asked another person to teach reading and writing at least. In the memories of his mother, Anna Seghers, this time in Mexico was in exile, reports Peter Radvanyi, that in fact many people listened this call and act upon on this, and adult literacy decrease in some extent in reaction of this “Oyed”. 

         Many projects were launched every year aimed at educating youth and adults. Literacy not only them but also to recover that which has already initiated the studies and that by virtue of life, abandoned prematurely.

↑ Education Magazine Brazil

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↑ Human Development Report 1993 - Human Development Indicators

↑ Peter Radvanyi: Beyond the Stream. Memories of my mother Anna Seghers. Translated from the French by Manfred Flügge. Berlin: Aufbau, 2006, p. 104 ISBN 3-7466-2283-2