Alex Daniel Pacheco Álvarez, president of the Federation of Students of Middle Education (FEEM)

"Our first duty is to study and in the midst of the confrontation with the COVID-19 we have not neglected for a second the educational tasks," said Alex Daniel Pacheco Álvarez, president of the Federation of Students of Middle Education (FEEM) in Las Tunas.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The epidemiological emergency interrupted activities in educational centers, but it did not stop the learning process. The more than 14,500 students of that organization here, now outside the classroom, continue their preparation through television classes.

"We consider that the teleclasses have quality and have been enriched from the approaches of the students." Pacheco Álvarez explained that those who finish the twelfth grade reinforce their studies with a view to entering the University, as do the technical and pedagogical students who will do the exercises of completion of studies.

New technologies are also a useful tool to learn in these days when they have had to stay home and comply with sanitary and hygienic measures to prevent the contagion with new coronavirus. "We have continued to exchange and systematize content on social media, in WhatsApp groups," he said.

Certainly, for these impetuous soul boys and girls, this stage of "confinement" has not been easy. And not a few have felt the need to return to the classrooms, because as Pacheco affirmed: "for Cuban youths, school is the second home." Now the main mission of this group is to prepare for the school resuming with the commitment that these times demand.