By Esther De la Cruz Castillejo
estherc@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas -. When Luis Figueredo Toranzo was an adult he realized he didn't have too much vocation for the study, so he didn't want to continue in a classroom for more time and after he fished his twelfth grade he began to work.

The big dilemma was that of "how to do, to do nothing", something that was not approved by his mother and his sister, not only because “they don’t accept lazy people at home" but because the domestic economy didn't allow them to feed a mouth that didn't produce anything, with all the possibilities to work and to study that there are in this country for healthy people.

In front of this alternative and after several ideas his salvation boat appears amid so much trash in his head: "to work, at least to start up with something, the campaign against the mosquitoes is a choice".

This campaign, created to fight mainly the mosquito Aedes Aegypti, maintains active an important labor force of men and women who visit each house and labor centers, looking for breeding ground of vectors, facilitating their elimination and educating the population.

Undoubtedly, at the beginning it was not tempting, but what seemed to be “the worst card of the game" has become, with the perseverance and the practice, a good way to work in favor of health of the people, and until to improve knowledge.

Now Luis is receiving a language course on Saturdays, does his work in the dame neighborhood and knows better the characteristics of each house and the aspects in which he must make emphasis; he works with several young people like him that value his task “he is the best worker we have” they assert.

His patience and perseverance together with that of his 38 coworkers have favored a change in the behavior of this silent man of fragile figure who now has responsibility and certain dose of pride for the work he does.

It is true the sun bothers many times during his work on foot house by house and that he doesn't seek to recommend to abandon the studies, but he thanks the possibility of being part of something useful for the society and he is proud of being born in a country that offers an opportunity to everybody.



 

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