2009-11-21 08:56:10
HAVANA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- "Children's Circle" and "Educate Your Child" are household words in Cuba, where parents benefit from these social pre-school education programs for their children.
Created in April 1961 as an institutional format of early schooling outside families, the Children's Circle program aims at assisting working mothers. Meanwhile, the Educate Your Child program focuses on a non-institutional format of early schooling within families.
Combined, the two programs now cover the early education of some 860,000 children, accounting for 97 percent of the country's total population of infants to six-year-olds ...
The UNICEF representative in Cuba, Jose Juan Ortiz Bru, has a good opinion of these well-established social programs, saying that despite the long-standing economic problems in the country, Cuba has made sure that no child lacks health care or an early education ...
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