The school uniforms commercialized in a network of 266 stores, located in the 14 municipalities of Holguin province, are well accepted by students and parents of the first grades of the different education levels.
The more than 74 thousand garments, made by the Unidad Empresarial de Base Confecciones Yamarex, place Holguin among the territories that manufacture uniforms for its students, a particularity within the educational system in the country.
In the initial stage, priority was given to pre-school and fifth graders of primary school, seventh graders of junior high school and first graders of the technical specialties, as part of the insurance for the 2023-2024 school period, which will have about 141 thousand students in the province, explained to the press Matos Martínez, a specialist in the Quality area of the entity.
He underlined that the company is facing difficulties with raw materials and has applied innovations aimed at maintaining the operation of the machines, whose spare parts are limited due to the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba.
He specified that even with these restrictions, the entity’s social order is gradually being guaranteed, amounting to some 400,000 pieces per year to cover the existing demands.
Regarding the availability of sizes, she explained that the ranges are provided to the company by the Ministry of Education, after coordination with the groups of students and their families, and subsequently assumed by Yamarex.
Regarding this issue, Yackelín Ramírez Pérez, mother of a fifth grade student of the Dalqui Sánchez boarding school in the city of Holguín, expressed the low availability of small sizes in the establishments, for which reason it is necessary to continue improving the coordination with the industry.
She also qualified as correct the decision to sell two uniforms in the case of these grades and to provide alternatives when not finding garments with the appropriate size for infants.
Amelia Tamayo, a resident of Reparto Nuevo Llano in the provincial capital city and a tourism worker, also praised the quality in the finishing of the pieces and the efforts to meet the demands, notorious in the different years of primary school.
In view of the high prices in informal markets, Annia Gutiérez, mother of a pre-school student, acknowledged the possibilities given to the schools to organize the delivery of the vouchers, until the needs are gradually covered.
Yamarex has four workshops in Holguín, where masks, napkins, work clothes, lingerie and household linen are also manufactured and two tons of textile waste are recovered annually and reused in alternative production lines.
By Eileen Esther Molina Fernández – ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo
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