More than 2500 Guantanamo children with special educational needs receive specialized care despite the US blockade against Cuba.
More than 2500 Guantanamo children with special educational needs receive specialized care despite the US blockade against Cuba.
To that end there are 22 schools dedicated to the teaching in the Cuban easternmost end.
That pedagogical response to disabled children is a priority for the educational system of the island that despite the limitations the genocidal blockade imposed by the United States causes, guarantees the teaching materials and basic equipments necessary for the instruction of infants.
Braille Typewriters, which are essential in the learning process of blind and visually impaired children, is among the expensive resources guaranteed by the Cuban state, after considerable efforts to acquire them in the international market, since in many cases, the components of those machines are made in the U.S.
The Cuban state strives for education reaches all alike, whose advances can be seen in special schools in Guantanamo as the "14 de Junio" Special School that enrolls deaf, hearing impared, blind and visually impaired children, or the school " 16 de Abril", specializing in care for children with language disorders.
The criminal blockade has become a silent war and the most vicious act of dishonesty that has been rejected by the international community since 1992.
On October 27, for the twenty-fourth time the Cuban resolution on the need to end this unjust policy at the UN will be put to the vote.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez