[NYTr] Cubans Turn Out in force for 48th Volunteer Sunday

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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
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Cubans Turn Out in Force for 48th Volunteer Sunday

Havana, Nov 26 (acn) Residents of the eastern Cuban province of Granma, 
in the recovery process after severe flooding caused by Tropical Storm 
Noel, turned out in force on Sunday for a volunteer workday 
commemorating the 48th anniversary of the first such day led by Ernesto 
"Che" Guevara on November 22, 1959.

Back on that memorable date in the first year of the Cuban revolution, 
volunteers began building a school in the municipality of Bartolome 
Maso, also in Granma. On Sunday work centered on recovering 
agricultural production. Some 100,000 people turned out for the effort, 
reports Granma newspaper.

Rio Cauto, where the effects of the heavy rains associated with the 
storm were felt the most, was the scene of special activities for the 
commemoration. Some 10,000 people from the community took part in 
cleanup, planting vegetable nurseries, repairing homes and other urgent 
tasks.

Elvis Galan Jimenez, a representative of the local Young Communist 
League (UJC), highlighted the positive turnout Sunday and on other 
previously held volunteer days called to speed up the recovery effort.

Pedro Victor Simon Rodriguez, secretary general of the Cuban Worker's 
Federation (CTC) for the province of Granma, said the new revolutionary 
consciousness spearheaded by Che in 1959 has been transmitted from one 
generation of Cubans to another.

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Cuban Youth Plunge into Voluntary Work

Havana, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Cuban youth are carrying
out Sunday a brigade for voluntary work in the island, to remember the
example of Argentinean-Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara.

Young Communist League's National Bureau member Maday Iglesias told
"Juventud Rebelde" newspaper that efforts for the economic and social
recovery will be focused on the country's eastern provinces.

After intensive rains, associated to Tropical Storm Noel by late
October and early November, the eastern Cuba had material losses valued
at $500 million.

The youth leader said that actions in the rest of the island's
territories are aimed to the production and services, the campaign
against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, and the construction of social
works.

Che personally created and boosted the first brigade of voluntary work
in Cuba, on November 22, 1959.