Guantánamo.- The University Student Federation in Guantanamo celebrates the International Students’ Day, this November 17, with the entry of more than 1,300 new members to the organization, according to María Karla Bruch Peraza, president of the FEU at the House of Science and Progress.
She pointed out that, since joining the FEU, these young people have responsibly joined community projects and movements, especially related to the scientific, research, and sports branches, in addition to their work as student assistants and art lovers.
They also joined the recovery tasks at the affected university campuses in the municipalities of San Antonio del Sur and Imías, and as an initiative, they made up brigades to clean the homes of the locals, as well as deliver donations to vulnerable families.
As every year on this date, the University of Guantánamo also celebrates multiple activities such as dances, camping and the University Book and Reading Festival (FULL), the undoubted cultural window for university students to Cuban literature and contemporary thought.
During the day for International Students’ Day, the University of Guantánamo plans to hold special morning sessions, chess simultaneous games, karaoke, as well as the celebration of the scholarship holders, enlivened by the Backpack on Shoulders Project.
Every November 17, the International Students’ Day is celebrated to commemorate the events that occurred in the fall of 1939, in Czechoslovakia, where a large number of students participated in demonstration in the streets of Prague.
The celebration of this important date for the student population around the world has its origins in 1939, when on October 28 of that same year Jan Opletal, a medical student, was murdered due to the Nazi invasion.
