Children Offer Their Hands to Work in Las Tunas
July 7, 2010, 4:31 pm

By Yetel Ricaño Noguera
thais@rvictoria.icrt.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas.- Since last Monday, July 5 many homes in the eastern province of Las Tunas have inside the unique buzz of children and adolescents who hurriedly get ready to not be late for your last duty: the Children Brigades (FAPI).

Their members, children from fourth to ninth grade, will work for three mornings in the beautification of communities or of their schools
This idea started in 1993 in order to link their learning with tasks that provide benefits to the society, such as the repair of textbooks and workbooks inf primary and secondary teachings.

Each school guarantees the indispensable textbooks to learn the lessons, so children and adolescents help to their care and maintenance at the end of each school year.

The collection of raw materials, in their own communities and those close to each school, is also one of the tasks assigned to those students during the three days, while the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) call to their members to favor the work of children, who also work in the reforestation.

Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks at the communities, due to the unpredictability of citizen behavior, is the fight against the mosquito Aedes Aegytis transmitter of dengue and other diseases, but that is another of their duties as promoter of the hygiene.

Their actions aslo include the care to historical places, as a real contact to precerve the past life of the country and the town, and to widen knowledge on geography, particularly of the province where they live.

The FAPI help children to beautify and preserve their schools, motivate them to work and to create responsibility, to love thier communities and to precerve the environment and the hygiene in their blue lovely planet.