The quick development of the modern world implies a change in behavior and attitude towards everything around us, that what we call Planet.
Industrialized and technocratic societies demand skills and knowledge appropriation at very deep levels. But those, who are not, are also looking for alternatives, methods, tools, roads - as we like to call it, to achieve sustainable development.
But what is sustainable development? It is based on three factor key: society, economy and environment, and aims to meet the needs of modern man without jeopardizing the welfare of future generations.
And this could never happen without an education that enriches the conscious act of persons; without an education that engages the masses on the need to preserve the resources that are useful today and tomorrow they will be also.
"Literacy is indispensable for achieving the objective of the proposed sustainable development: promoting quality education, inclusive and equitable learning throughout life for all., Is the message we transmit it Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO on the occasion of International Literacy Day.
In this regard, since 1959 the Cuban government has projected a social strategy that nests in early education levels of the people; so, in 1961, was started the Literacy Campaign that would lead to the end of that year, Cuba was declared illiteracy-free territory.
This campaign not only eradicated illiteracy but laid the groundwork for a revolution in education. Today, the Cuban nation maintains indexes that make it a power in this area.
Meanwhile, 757 million adults in the world still do not have basic skills in reading and writing. The number of children and adolescents out of school is increasing and amounts to 124 million. In addition, about 250 million children of school age cannot read or write.
Therefore Cuban foreign policy has also promoted actions that promote education to global levels. Emphasizes, for example, the literacy method "Yo Si Puedo" has reached more than 8 million people, whose value is legitimized with the course notes that literacy is a development accelerator and a vector of peace.