Havana, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) The adult literacy program "Yo, si puedo" (Yes, I Can), created by Cuban teacher Leonela Relys, has benefited more than 10 million people in several parts of the world, Granma newspaper reports today.
Such figure is materialized by adding almost 795,000 who are currently taking classes in 11 countries worldwide, among them, Angola, Mozambique, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and Namibia, Dr. Lisset Valdes, academic assistant director of the Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute, told the press.

Implemented since 2002, the method already has more than 9,400,000 people who learned how to read and write from about 30 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as other regions of the world.

This program has also granted Cuba several awards from Unesco, such as the Honorable Mention of the King Sejong Literacy Prize, in 2002 and 2003; and the Prize of the same name in 2006.

About the program of continuing studies "Yo, si puedo seguir" (Yes, I can continue) -developed in four countries of the region (Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Colombia) - Valdes said more than 220,000 million people have been graduated, and more than 120,000 are currently studying.