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The 23rd edition of the International Fair of the Book of Bogotá was inaugurated by president Juan Manuel Santos. The event is dedicated this year to the 200th anniversary of the independence of Colombia from Spain.
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Colombia has this month a very particular visitor: the relics of Don Bosco, the charismatic founder of the largest Catholic educational organization of the Church that is present in 131 countries. As the Salesians of Don Bosco are celebrating the 150th anniversary of their foundation in Turin (Italy), they got the idea to bring the relics of the Saint to the 131 countries.
Surely worst than the long Colombian conflict, it is the reality of its street children in the biggest cities. The Gamín (street boy in Colombian idioms), became almost a traditional character. Even if some people and groups complain of the lack of more definitive projects to end the problem of unprotected children in the Colombian streets, it is possible to find a good list of institutions, private and officials, doing something. The problem stands in the same conflict. Only the growing number of displaced farm families, fleeing from war-zones and taking refuse in the cities, is a definitive source of children on the streets with all its consequences.
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The Colombian Catholic Church began in Bogotá its annual ´Week for Peace´, a time of reflection celebrated after September 9 with the participation of different institutions and the invitation to the actors of the conflict. This year the Church proposed to support schools and universities as scenarios of peace and called to the government and the Farc guerrillas to put the issue of the hostages as a priority in their agendas.
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The Minister of Education of Colombia, Mrs Cecilia María Vélez White, declared that the evaluation to teachers of English of the Colombian schools has proven their lack of preparation:
“De los once mil que nosotros habíamos evaluado más o menos unos cinco mil no sabían hablar inglés, los otros seis mil por lo menos tenían algún rudimento de hablar inglés”.
“Of the eleven thousand we evaluated, some five thousand didn’t know how to speak English. The other six thousand had basic knowledge of how to speak English,“, said the Ministry.
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XIV Seminar at Ciudad Don Bosco
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