Education Minister Andrés Navarro and National District Mayor David Collado signed an agreement to promote civic education programs. The strategic agreement calls for implementing projects in classrooms to strengthen the educational system in the capital city of Santo Domingo. The agreement, which was signed at the InterContinental Hotel on Av. Winston Churchill, will extend the “I Am Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Soy Yo) campaign by the National District government. The program is coordinated by former Vice President and former Education Minister Milagros Ortiz Bosch, who co-signed the agreement. The program also seeks to motivate citizens to keep the city clean and care for the city’s public spaces. Navarro says his goal is to start early to transform citizens early and turn the Dominican Republic into a model nation for the region.
“As a municipal worker, who spent so much time working in the heat of local development, I am very committed to working with local governments. I believe fundamentally that the sustainable development of the country should be based on local development, ” Navarro said.
Navarro worked for many years as secretary general of the National District government. He highlighted the goal of the program of generating a new culture of co-responsibility and how sustainable development is based on local development.
National District Mayor Collado said: “I am convinced that the city of Santo Domingo is taking a significant step forward today.”
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Ministry of Education
11 October 2018
