ESMERALDA, CAMAGÜEY.- The Abel Santamaría Cuadrado basic urban secondary school (ESBU) dressed in its best clothes at the beginning of the school year, in which it hosted the Provincial Ceremony.

This center was chosen, in addition to its teaching results, for the important restoration and maintenance process to which it was subjected, a request that several former students had been raising in different spaces with the highest authorities of the province.

Upon arriving very early on Monday, the students there were pleasantly surprised to find a newly painted study center with many improvements, as work was done on premises, classrooms, laboratories, the pantry, electrical services, carpentry, masonry and painting.

"They also located light bulbs, electrical outlets, and new staircases, repaired windows and doors, along with improving the plumbing networks," director Maryorie Mackenzie Naranjo explained to Adelante Digital.

Entities, organizations and cooperatives of the territory participated in this important task, as well as representatives of the private sector: farmers, self-employed workers and micro, small and medium-sized businesses (Mipymes). Everyone received recognition and thanks during the beginning of the course, which was attended by Federico Hernández Hernández, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Camagüey, and Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, governor of the province. The leaders toured the school and exchanged in classrooms and hallways with students and teachers.

The repairs at the Abel Santamaría ESBU, with an enrollment of more than 550 students, will continue in stages, but what has been done so far has had a positive impact on Esmeralda, and mainly on the adolescents who begin a new course with better conditions for the study.

 Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez