May 31, people throughout Cuba came together to celebrate our greatest treasure, children, on International Children’s Day. June 1, celebrations took place all over Cuba, in recreational and cultural centers, sports grounds, parks, plazas, hospitals and pediatric centers and even the street, in a country which devotes itself to children, not one, but every single day of the year. In any place in the country you can see the radiant faces of boys and girls, a clear expression children’s awareness that education, growing up healthy, being listened to, making their own decisions and participating in a future which belongs to them are rights won and defended by the Revolution. At the Ernesto Guevara Recreation Center, The National Career Exposition, which organized some 500 exhibitions all over the country for elementary high school students signaled an end to the celebrations which had lasted five days. Odalis García, national director of the Ministry of Elementary Education, spoke of this celebration of knowledge, vocation and talent, as the reaffirmation of Martí’s c certainty that humans “grow with the work produced with their hands,” adding that plans for the 2016 celebrations are already underway. Create space and let your imagination fly and you will see a multitude of children learning to play, enjoying growing, looking with astonishment upon the world, discovering its many natural wonders and human ingenuity, stated Nexy Véliz, president of the José Martí Pioneers Organization. (AIN).
