Pride, gratitude, and satisfaction were the feelings experienced by the pedagogue Marian Rachel Carmenate Castillo when she was elected, by her work group in the Jesús Argüelles semi-boarding school, as a direct delegate to the XII National Congress of the Young Communist League (UJC in Spanish).

Las Tunas, Cuba.- "It is an honor that I also owe to my work results, even though I have only been working for one year. Being a teacher was my dream and my motivation to improve myself," said the young woman who teaches sixth-grade students.

"We are, in this hour of the Homeland, a handful of seeds that are sown in the furrow of the Revolution to make the future," she said, alluding to a phrase of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, whose thoughts will guide the great event of the youngest militants.

In turn, Carmenate Castillo stressed that the Congress is an opportunity to share her work experience in the educational sector and in working with children.
The third and last of the direct delegates from Las Tunas to the UJC Congress received the accreditation from Dilberto González García, a member of the organization's National Bureau, who, for his part, praised the results of the school, achievements that earned it the possibility of having a representative at the meeting.

"You have a great mission: to train the new generation of Cubans", he said, and then concluded: "Congratulations, and to keep on working and moving forward."

Milena Pérez Correoso, first secretary of the UJC in the province, said that young people are the continuity of a process that trusts them to build the future. "Creating, doing, and thinking about how to build a better society in the current times is the guiding thread that brought us here today, and which will take us, in turn, to the national meeting. We are guided by a single, overriding purpose: to do for Cuba, and to do so we must rearm ourselves every day, shed our burdens, and be accompanied by the good and useful youth formed by the Revolution," she pointed out.

"We have a Revolution to take care of," concluded the leader of the youth vanguard in Las Tunas where, as part of the process towards the Congress, this Thursday 23rd, and Friday 24th, assemblies will take place in the municipalities of Las Tunas and "Jesús Menéndez," respectively.