Guantanamo is the province that is making the most progress in the country with the creation of 29 children’s homes, an early childhood alternative that extends throughout the eastern territory, under Resolution 58/2021 of the Education Minister, which regulates the opening of these institutions.
Yuvasnovis Maceo Perez, provincial head for Early Childhood, emphasized that this new variant of educational attention benefits to date more than 500 children from one to five years old, who are attended by educators and pedagogical assistants, in charge of forming in them habits of courtesy, values and love for their homeland and its heroes.
He also said that the children benefiting from this program also learn to recognize geometric figures, vowels, colors, as well as the world around them, elementary notions of mathematics and oral expression.
In view of the lack of capacity for children’s care centers in the province, the creation of children’s homes is being considered. Only 20 of them belong to the education sector and the municipalities that stand out are: Guantanamo, Baracoa, Yateras, El Salvador and Niceto Perez, an initiative that is being generalized for the benefit of working mothers.
In Guantanamo province there are 39 child care centers in operation, which is insufficient to meet the demand, so the idea of increasing the number of children’s homes is a very welcome alternative for working families, who see the solution to child care.
This is a report of Dianelbis Delfino Martinez
Translated and edited by Dayla Perez Ortiz.
