Book, Letters to Guinea-Bissau: records of an experience in process[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Letters to Guinea-Bissau is a record of Paulo Freire's work in building a model of adult literacy in that country. Written and compiled in 1976 and 1977, it is a moving book that overflows the true meaning of help, that in which everyone they help each other, growing together in the common effort to understand the reality they seek to transform. In 1963, in Angicos, in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, three hundred rural workers were taught literacy in just 40 hours, using the method proposed by Paulo Freire. This was the result of the pilot project of what would become the National Literacy Program of the government of João Goulart, president who would be deposed in March 1964. In October of that same year, Freire left Brazil to protect his own life. He only returned to visit the country in 1979, with the democratic opening. Throughout its history, Paulo Freire received more than one hundred honorary doctorate titles, from several national and foreign universities, in addition to numerous awards, such as Education for Peace, from UNESCO, and Order of Cultural Merit, from the Brazilian government. Member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame and the Reading Hall of Fame. “There is something that seems important to me to highlight. The margin of freedom that students have in their participation in work. A group, for example, which is seriously dedicated to growing flowers at Simão Mendes Hospital, thinks about the message of life that a rose can bring to the sick every day. They love the roses they plant as much as the land they prepare for sowing fruit trees. His love of life has to do with the effort of revolutionary reconstruction of his society.” "