While in the world millions of children learn about drug addiction, violence, street work, prostitution and other social evils, for Cubans it's just a reality they see on television reports and films.
While in the world millions of children learn about drug addiction, violence, street work, prostitution and other social evils, for Cubans it's just a reality they see on television reports and films.
Children in this archipelago open their eyes every morning with the guarantee of free health care and education, recreation possibilities and living a happy childhood and the possibility of education from the first year through the Educa a tu Hijo Program and child day care centers, where they learn the basics of math and the mother tongue, patriotic values, healthy habits and formal education.
Here workers go to their workplaces with the confidence that their children receive an advanced education in schools through the use of computers, televisions and videos even in remote areas of the territory where there classrooms with only one student.
Parents are so calm because they know that their children are protected against 13 diseases such as polio, whooping cough, haemophilus influenzae, tetanus and other preventable diseases causing thousands of deaths worldwide every year.
Programs for the child and mother care give prestige to the Cuban public health and contribute that Guantanamo in 2014 reaches the lowest infant mortality rate in its history: 4, 1 per thousand live births, lower than many developed countries.
According to UNICEF, about 400 million children live in poverty, while 158 million children between 5 and 14 years of age work in order to help the family subsistence excluding those suffering from injuries caused by armed conflict.
Cuban reality is different: Our children have the right to recreation in parks, community video clubs, movie theaters, video clubs, and other institutions that promote their healthy entertainment.
Undoubtedly, there is nothing like this beautiful reality as compared with the horrors of child pornography, prostitution and drug addiction, as well as the need to beg in the streets.
How much pain is felt upon seeing thousands of children suffering from these diseases on the planet, they have a sad look and dreams extinguished by despair. Not in vain it is said that poverty has the face of a child.
The Cuban state prioritizes the protection of the children´s rights, who have guaranteed their basic needs so that in the future they become worthy men and women.
Translation: Ilia Chron