Cuba: Training of older adults to debate in a global meeting

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 4 (ACN) A workshop on the training and information of older adults: volunteering, and lifelong education, will take place today in this capital in a world event that brings together over 200 delegates and guests from some 15 countries.

Teresa Orosa, President of the Chair of the Senior Adult at the University of Havana, will speak about education in the International Colloquium "The rights of the elderly in the world", which will conclude with thousands of teachers , Mostly retired people who voluntarily work for the education and well-being of their peers.

Through this training model thousands of older adults continue to be educated to continue being useful to society, said Orosa this Monday in her speech during the opening of the colloquium that takes place in the Cojímar Convention Center.

Many years ago the National Hero of Cuba José Martí said that "education has to go wherever life goes", so if life by chance leads us to old age we must remain active and updated people, she remarked.

In one of his regular meetings with Cuban teachers, Revolution Leader Fidel Castro Ruz said: "To educate is to look for all the good that can be in the soul of a human being", for that reason, how much good we have in our souls the people greater. How much we can still continue to learn to be better people, he emphasized.

All human beings possess abilities, talents, longings, frustrations, projects and many good qualities that we continue to have when we are older, according to what we have been able to be and learn, stressed the expert.

Older people constitute the living historical memory of our peoples, and it is our right and duty to contribute and contribute to that better world, he said.

This meeting of the voices of the elderly is not a space for the complaint, but for the contribution and proposed solutions, it meant.

Speaking exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, the renowned psychologist said that according to data from the Cuban Workers Federation, the Chair of the Elderly Adult have graduated about 119 thousand people since 2000 when this program began, sponsored by the University of Havana, the CTC and the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba.

Currently in La Havana province there are 574 adults enrolled in 44 classrooms and 16 thousand 851 graduates, he concluded.