[NYTr] Cuba's Annual Voluntary Work Weekend Targets Dengue-Causing Mosquito
 
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:14:21 -0500 (CDT)


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Cuba's Annual Voluntary Work Weekend Targets Dengue-Causing Mosquito

Havana, July 17 (acn) More than 1.9 million Cubans took part in a 
weekend of volunteer work as part of the observance of the National Day
of Rebelliousness celebrated each year on July 26.

That date, Cuba's most important national holiday, marks the
anniversary of the 1953 rebel attacks on the Moncada and Cespedes
garrisons in Santiago and Bayamo that sparked the Cuban Revolution.

General secretary of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC,) Salvador 
Valdes Mesa, acknowledged the work of those who came out to support the 
campaign to eliminate potential mosquito breeding grounds throughout 
the nation. Valdes said the effort conducted at work places contributes 
to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.

The weekend volunteer work campaign included grass cutting, collection 
of rubble, cleaning of ditches, sewers and septic tanks, tree trimming, 
as well as work at the intensive organic gardens and participation in 
priority construction projects.

Valdes said that the Cuban labor movement works to promote this type of 
volunteer work in support of high priority projects and urgent tasks of 
the nation, a decision reached during the last CTC Congress. Labor 
leaders from throughout the country agreed to follow the example of 
Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the chief promoter of volunteer work 
in the early years of the Revolution.

Valdes added that the mobilization of workers took place in an 
organized manner and that concrete results were achieved.

The national July 26th commemoration will take place next week in the 
eastern province of Camaguey.
       
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