Mission Ribas Graduates 450,000 Venezuelans

[T&T Venezuela Bolivarian Solidarity]

Mission Ribas, whose goal is to graduate Venezuelan people who did not finish high school, have graduated some 450,000 Venezuelans in four years, said the President of this educative social program promoted by the Bolivarian government, Orlando Ortegano.

During a TV program broadcast by state-owned TV station (VTV), Ortegano explained that “153,000 people are already studying in Mission Sucre (program designed to provide access to higher education to all Venezuelans).

He pointed out that “right now, about 540,000 people are studying in Mission Ribas; this proves the initial scope of the mission. Also, he explained that the first group to enter high school through Mission Ribas was expected to be one million people, “so, we have achieved he proposed goals.”

Likewise, the president of Mission Ribas stressed that this mission’s progress will be made public at a ceremony to relaunch this social program.

“We want to incorporate students to other activities such as integration with communities, and participation in environmental initiatives, among others. We are trying to adapt this mission to the new model of citizens,” he said.

On October 16, 2003, through Decree 2,656, the Presidential commission was created in order to give over 770,000 Venezuelans the hope of finishing high school so that they can access higher education.

In addition, on November 17, 2003, 300,000 Venezuelans were incorporated into the Venezuelan educative system by President Hugo Chávez, who granted scholarships to 54,000 people in order to allow them to keep up with the mission.

Mission Ribas’ Syllabus includes a Community and Social Component in keeping with the foundations of contemporaneous pedagogy: Leaning to know, learning to do, learning to live and learning to be.

This component’s goal is to provide future high school graduates a critical and transforming education so that they can solve problems and join their communities’ endogenous development and Venezuela’s productive apparatus.

All these values are taught with an audio-visual system and the support of teachers. This method, endorsed by the Venezuelan Ministry of Popular Power for Education, is totally free-of-charge. The books are also provided by Mission Ribas.

Mission Ribas is an educative program aimed at offering the opportunity to continue high school studies through a special teaching method to those people who could not finish high school.

This mission is promoted by the Ministry of Popular Power for Energy and Oil and the National Institute of Socialist Training and Education (Inces). It designs organization mechanisms aimed at its participants in order to encourage their participation in the Venezuelan society.