More than four thousand students from boarding schools in the province of Holguin returned to their homes. As a preventive measure to safeguard their physical safety in the face of the danger posed by the approaching Tropical Storm Melissa to the eastern part of the archipelago.
Luis Felipe Batista Rodríguez, General Director of Education, reported during a meeting of the Provincial Defense Council that transportation has been guaranteed for students from various institutions. Including those related to culture and sports, and more than 700 students from the University of Holguin.
Currently, they are providing protection to eight Namibian students pursuing higher education in the territory at the Oscar Lucero campus. They are also providing care to seven young people from the El Alba Regional Academy of Fine Arts. From provinces such as Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey. Which have also activated the information phase due to the approaching storm.
At the Dr. Antonio Núñez Jiménez University of Moa, an institution specializing in geology, mining, and metallurgy where 78 students from different regions of the country study. Also actions are being coordinated to determine whether to return students home or evacuate them, amid persistent rains in eastern Holguin.
The province has 243 protection centers, of which approximately 190 belong to the educational sector. The necessary conditions are being prepared to ensure food and supplies are available. With the collaboration of other subgroups to complete inventories, he explained.
Teaching staff were instructed to reinforce windows and roofs at each location. Store existing technological equipment and resources. They prioritize the care of the new Third Advanced Study Materials base, received from Mexico.
Batista indicated that the activation of a teaching brigade is ready to provide psychological support to the communities during the recovery phase following the meteorological event.
Holguin has the largest school network in the country. Comprised of 120 schools with fewer than five students and more than 1,000 located in hard-to-reach areas. Therefore, constant communication is urgently needed to ensure the safety of individuals and the protection of facilities.
As of press time, the Minister of Education, Naima Ariatne Trujillo, had not ordered the suspension of the school year in the eastern region. Where ensuring the quality and continuity of the Cuban educational process is a priority.
With information from Claudia Laura Rodríguez Zaldívar/CNA
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