Letter to Fidel. Paterson K.

Cuba. 1961. Fidel Castro announces the campaign to combat illiteracy. He promises that in just one year, volunteers will teach the literacy of all the inhabitants of the island who do not know how to read and write: “There is no strong state without a strong people. To become responsible citizens, people need to be competent. "But where to get so many vultures teachers to have enough (albeit a small) state to be enough? They become schoolchildren and students, and most often young girls and girls become. Thirteen -year -old Laura is one of them. An excellent student who loves to read English novels and philosophical poems, she had never left the capital before. However, now, together with other young teachers, Laura goes to the mountains. She has to live in a peasant family, work in the field, and encounter the dangers of wartime. Laura will teach and, of course, study.