Maestras Voluntarias / Volunteer Teachers
Dir. Catherine Murphy
17 mins | Documentary | US/Cuba | 2021
In April of 1960, 1,500 young volunteers headed into the rural mountains of their island nation of Cuba, the first teachers in a pilot program that lay groundwork for the massive National Literacy Campaign that would take place the following year.
Produced by The Literacy Project, Tres Musas Productions, the Martin Luther King Memorial Center, and La Rueda Films.
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