Cuban project Palomas will participate in the Ibero-American Prize

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 15 (ACN) Project Palomas, which is actively engaged in Popular Education programs to empower women, children and vulnerable persons, will represent Cuba at the 5th Oscar Arnulfo Romero Ibero-American Prize for Human Rights Education, to be held in Rio, Brazil, on September 4 to 5.

Project coordinator Sergio Cabrera Angulo remarked that the jury chose Palomas to represent Cuba from among some 2,000 institutions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The winners from each country in the region will be invited to the V International Seminar on Human Rights Education, scheduled to take place also in Rio de Janeiro.

The award seeks to recognize the work of civil society organizations, educational institutions, enterprises, public bodies and foundations whose non-formal education initiatives are aimed at protecting and promoting the human and citizen rights of every person in Ibero-America.

Founded in 1949 with the motto “We make cooperation happen”, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) is the first intergovernmental organization for South-South cooperation in the Ibero-American region. It is made up of 23 member states and 19 national offices, in addition to its General Secretariat in Madrid, Spain.

With more than 650 ongoing projects and more than 400 active agreements, the OEI stands as one of the largest cooperation networks in Ibero-America and has contributed to the drastic reduction of illiteracy in the region, with an average of more than 12 million direct beneficiaries in the last five years.