Photos: Leandro Pérez Pérez/AdelanteCAMAGÜEY.- That day the world darkened for her. The doctors informed Elsa Alfonso Expósito that for a complication her small Lyet had lost the hearing; nevertheless, she forgot a thing: the baby was born in Cuba.

“In most cases, when the members of the family find out that their creature has some shortcoming they become very sad. And the fact is that everybody wants the best thing for his children, especially that they are healthy. In my case I cannot deny that it was very difficult at first, but I got over to the pain and began to look for the possible ways of helping my girl”.

Then it was when the educator of kindergarten was interested more by the special education and left behind ten years dedicated to the early childhood for, after a long preparation, move to the school Antonio Suárez, located to the exit of the city of Camagüey, in the Central Highway route West.

“There I realized that this is a wonderful specialty where you can help to achieve significant advances in the development of the children, always together with the family, the different organizations and the community. It is a sublime profession of love, it is necessary to show a lot of affection for them to see the results, that's why I always say that it must be studied by vocation”.

And for these things of the destiny or perhaps for the happiness of know yourself usefully, the life wanted to be grateful to her to Elsa for so many tenderness with the news that her daughter, on having graduated of ninth grade, would work as pedagogic assistant and instructor of language of signs in the same school as some years ago saw her growing.

Today Elsa is licensed in Special Education and works in the School Ignacio Agramante, of the city of Camagüey. According to her all the effort of the teachers in this type of schools is always worthy when you see the pupils in some work center, creating things with his hands, or like her daughter, teaching to be useful and independent to those that were lucky to be "special" in Cuba.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez