In the cold night at a fair in the seafront of Tripoli, laughing children sing as they spin on a carousel. But theirs is not the nursery rhyme. His cry of joy is the revolutionary mantra has echoed in the Arab world: The savings is substantial even in areas that invests much of the national budget as the school network, where they do not care for and take full advantage of all resources. Making day-care in Las Tunas, in the eastern city, have made saving a credential presentation. The school is often cited as a paradigm in mind specialized meeting takes place in the province because it shows remarkable balance on that front as well as in teaching: in the previous year, its 588 students promoted to higher grade. "Our center has instituted programs to save water and energy, also in the methodological order," says the teacher Ridelsa Carmenate, head of the first cycle. "Whenever possible, and according to the content you are teaching, the insert in the classroom. It can be through educational games or trips to observe nature. In the system of activities must have at least one question related to these topics. " One of the parameters that proudly displays the center is saving electricity. "There is no reason for maintaining a TV plugged into the outlet, but not working, Rachel narrows Mederos, a student center. That is on red bulbs also spends. " "The patrols are very useful as it relates to saving children and take them very seriously," said the young teacher Masjuán Yanet. The teacher Ridelsa also referred to the rational use of the material basis of study. "We are always on the lookout for students not pull up their notebooks and sheets to fully exploit space. Some teachers listed the leaves of the books of some boys as a control option. "We also try to recover the damaged textbooks that can be used by students in courses to come. In this effort we put into play as well as seals and glue, lots of imagination. The last alternative is to send for feedstock, which is also a legitimate way to save. " Melchior Salgado, who attends Management Branch, explained that the thousand kilowatts that the center is assigned to consume in the month are strictly monitored. "That day by day we checked and we have always fulfilled, if for some reason we exceed in one area and go up from 33.3 kilowatt we should spend per day, we" Autocutter. " Of course, without affecting the televised classes or computer lab. " According to Melchior, water usage is also subject to strict control by a meter. The cleaning aids and kitchen staff applied different variants to save the precious liquid. "Food is made with liquefied gas, and although we were never given all the fuel delivery, which have reached us, because we apply cost saving measures. For example, turn on the stove at the time you start cooking, not before or after completion. "We installed a telephone, with a budget of 90.00 pesos per month, and were always lower. And is not that we use it, but we do it rationally, only to work or personal issues that merit it. " Defending a quality course with 30 percent less electricity consumed in the past school year and significant reductions in the amounts of diesel, petrol and LPG, is a challenge facing education in the province of Santiago de Cuba. "The potential of this country are in savings, so it must be planted in the school values that translate into conscious behavior and economic culture for life," says Hipolito Nunez, Energy Program Coordinator of the Provincial Education. The tiny seed is sown savings from teaching, and what we found on a tour of several schools of different teachings. Thus, the everyday is marked by the daily reading of the counter, detailed display of the plan in a visible wall and approach the subject in the morning. "While there is everywhere all the skill required for meter reading Hipolito Nunez-emphasized in schools do enough for savings, to the extent that the Board of Education ranks among the leading organizations in the efficient use of electricity in the province. " The official explained that "the implementation of the measure to deliver the books to students by replacement-that is when the teacher needs a new check-considerable savings achieved during the previous year, which could be deducted from the demand for the current school year, "he said. In an effort by the savings outlined in the province of Santiago de Cuba Pedagogical School Floro Perez, inner core, with an enrollment of 458 students, 13 classrooms, computer labs, a theater and a residence with 18 rooms and air conditioning, as their structural characteristics imposed on the use of air conditioning, as they have no natural ventilation. This situation, which lies between the centers of high consumers, in the words of Alexander Montoya, deputy managing director, has forced them to seek alternatives and especially economic-minded thinking. "We will step up the measures in other areas to get us to stay a few kilowatts to power plan air conditioners for two hours at least, so as to cool the rooms. "This concern for the widespread power consumption in all areas of school life. In the kitchen, goes on to argue that Montoya-try are in perfect condition pans and other cooking equipment and clogging, to prepare food in less time and save the liquefied gas. "The books, after the first distribution year earlier, deliveries of replacement, which we consume about 2 000 of them last term." The manager explained that the inventory of the basic means of each class is known to students and teachers and are checked periodically, while water has its time, in line with the needs of students and teachers. "On Thursday of each week we conducted a check of public ownership, in which each student is accountable to the state of the material basis of study and livelihoods (sheets, towels, pillowcases, pillows, shoes) available to . In this way we contribute elements that can build them a business culture, which was supplemented by information published in a prominent mural, and detailing how much each of the resources that we deliver here, and thus how much training a teacher at the center. "All these actions, together with the treatment of these topics in class, in the forum and learned societies, are vital for students to be forming in the economic culture and mentality of saving, especially in these students to be future teachers." In the educational sector saving the battle is won at school. This is where students and teachers should ensure that resources are not wasted, as well as enable all students, teachers and community economic culture acquire much needed. One of the schools experienced this school year to restructure its education system in the special school was Tania the Guerrilla, Camagüey municipality of Santa Cruz del Sur, which was integrated with the special school also Henry Reeve. Margarita Josefa Marquez, director of the center and more than four decades of experience in the sector, said the biggest challenge lay in the increased enrollment of 86 students to 120, as well as teachers. "Now they serve two specialties: Psychic Development Delay and Mental Retardation, which makes our school has a more comprehensive look at the shortcomings of his boys and to achieve a fruitful exchange of experiences among teachers and other specialists. "With this unification reduced the non-teaching staff, and energy, food and school supplies, to which we add a set of measures to save water, electricity and telephone. "Also, the Henry Reeve is now a much-needed high school that made him the municipality, by saving it means not only to the family economy, but also on transport, food and material basis of life for those young people who previously had a system internal study. " The director says the most important thing is to be creative in the pursuit of economic measures, noting that they are producing food in their school garden. "This not only fulfills the premise linking study with work, that is values of responsibility at an early age, but the school allows a saving on the purchase of plants and vegetables and maintaining a diverse offer in the dining room, and go guide and prepare the youth to careers that require a territory as Santa Cruz del Sur, purely agricultural. "Above all we work on the reproduction of quality seeds for short cycle crops, which are the fastest plate reach the students and teachers." The same effort is driven in the basic secondary Noel Fernández Pérez, in the Plaza de la Caridad, in Camaguey, which has been incorporated into the firing of the winners of competitions and events specific to the educational system as a result of his work in training young with a broad culture of savings. Each measure the student implemented in practice and links with course content. The Master of Science Eduardo Paz Gutierrez, school-based guide, meant that much of the school furniture was restored as part of the activities of the Labor Education course, and remembered that the pioneers participated in the recovery of textbooks. But the eighth-grader Claudia Cano Maceira estimated that "we must encourage more concrete involvement of the pioneers in competitions Energy Saving Program of the Ministry of Education (PAEME) and Program Savings and Rational Use of Water ( Paura). " Claudia, who was the winner in this municipality Paura is an active contributor to saving their school, like his fellow Julio Orlando Gonzalez and Jose Angel Heredia, who developed the Energy Revolution work: an achievement of the country, which reached about of the most important awards at the Provincial Competition PAEME. July said that almost everyone in the school take account of how consumed the metro-counter home, for it read. "There are pioneers swatch benzin rebellen whose parents have made a gift to saving energy in their homes for a month." However, the boys complain that not all families enough to support patrols and ensure that clip remains to be done. In this sense, Professor Paz Gutierrez said that there are many untapped reserves in the concrete for increased energy savings and off campus. "We must ensure that schools be flushed to the community, which has sites with high energy consumption, and linked more to the family, sometimes divorces these student movements." In 2010 the Ministry of Education realized savings of just over one hundred million pesos from the budget allocated to this sector. Measures such as the reorganization of the school network, mainly with low tuition centers and extreme measures of care material resources, led to these achievements. But there are still reservations as it does not care and takes everything that leads to the school network, and yet the state invests resources in technical or vocational training after leaving school or never exercise what they have studied. Another important step was the reduction of boarders. In the 2008-2009 school year there were 330 000 students with scholarships, today there are only about 89 000 in the country. Look Magaly Calvo, Vice Minister of Education, explained that although the decline is already considerable, is done gradually, as the conditions are created on the school network in urban areas. The goal is to leave as internal registration only indispensable. "The impact is great because it reduces the cost of fuel used in transportation of teachers and students, as well as food," he said. "It also saves the material basis of life and occurs a rearrangement of the workforce, especially the non-teaching staff, although this also extends to external sites." The Deputy Minister explained that the maintenance costs of these boarding schools can now be used in investment processes taking place in the school network, and also in the design of schools that receive these fees. "And what we have available is spent on basic study material, as laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and workshops and tools for Labor Education, which give effect to the guidelines of the Sixth Party Congress that speaks of raising the quality of education. " He stressed the need to increase the economic culture of teachers and students. "We must extend the useful life of the material basis of study, school furniture, books … It is true that the facilities have maintenance needs, but need more," he said. "We are not able to plan with reservations, so you have to plan better," he said. "We have distribution rules that establish the resources that correspond to each student. Another important line are inventories of stores, both schools in the municipalities and companies. That is between what we should improve. " "It's not just save on the cost of telephone, water and electricity, which is also important, be careful and make a good planning of what we have." -Yes, and there are results in some territories. This has benefits from two points of view, allowing the link to the student to practice and train him the producer mentality, and minimizes costs. There is still a long way to go. -There is the claim of some students who would like to purchase textbooks, especially if they are referred to the profession after exercise. -At present the mechanism of production and distribution is free, as the Constitution, but it is true that there is a complaint by students and teachers to acquire some texts, and we are not closed to analyze and make appropriate decisions . "This year there were 292 titles for the MINED, excluding those made for the INDER and the Ministries of Culture, Public Health and Higher Education, which are also forming organisms. "There is an edge that is not only the sale of the texts in use, but what to do when some titles, changes in the school curriculum, are no longer used. "In the last two book fairs have sold some securities, in coordination with the Cuban Book Institute. Pedagogical texts were no longer included in the curriculum, as well as literature, but we must move forward. " In regard to food, the Deputy Minister explained that the savings achieved by MINED the past school year, 45 percent were in this line by way of internal decline in enrollment. He also said that school snacks at a cost per student junior high school has a current enrollment of over 404 000 students, and therefore is a high cost and in some areas not utilized properly. -The process of economic planning in our business depends on enrollment levels and indicators of efficiency, as is the retention in the cycle of teacher education students and their full incorporation into the training of students. "At the end of 2010 is assessed to be a professor in the universities of Pedagogical Sciences has a significant average expenditure per pupil dollars annually, which forces us to constantly improve the process of planning and cost control in detail, a task that we been improving in the last years. "Raising the quality of training and achieve adequate retention allows us to use financial resources adequate budget, according to the purpose for which they were allocated. Otherwise, the unit costs per pupil increase and resources are invested would not be used immediately, with the loss. This means money that can be disabling for urgent needs MINED or nation. " The official said the budget for the Education of territorial subordination served by the MOE in the next year will have a reduction of just over two percent. The total budget for education sector in general is 9.5278 billion pesos, which represents 28.3 percent of total budgeted activity in the country. "We must act rationally and have almost pencil tip all the resources associated with the goods and services and make a good planning and better use of them. "The economy has a lot to do with discipline, so any lack of discipline, illegalities, the events that may occur from the criminal point of view, lead to a disruption to the budget. I know very well these plans because I was a fellow in Karl Marx in Miramar, and costing millions of dollars in pesos and foreign currency, but even the country loses a lot more money and resources in a more expensive item each day worldwide: food, which incidentally domestic economic slow down and devalue the purchasing power of average wages of productive forces thwarting UltraCare price, up to an egg that's saying something, or a guava, poor quality and poor presentation by the legal policy of forcing the peasants the state contract without leaving the option to sell their crop to the highest bidder and where suits when the state agency more than 24 hours late in collecting and paying. The current system of producer-legally protected status as the leader wrong and no sense of internal economy is covered with dust and straw, even a failure as economic managers and is the main source of economic loss for the country, not the U.S. blockade, which has nothing to do with sweet potatoes, taro, a chicken, duck, quail for soup, after which always protects the eternal failure. THE SUSTAINED BUROCRATICION indiscipline UNNECESSARY AND MUST BE CORRECTED IN A MANNER NOT LOSE CREDIBILITY EXEMPLARY FOR VITAL RESOURCES FOR THE STATE, AS NEEDED FOR A BASIC SERVICE WITHOUT END. I THINK THAT AFTER THE DEATH OF RECOVERY heroic guerrilla RAW MATERIALS JUST HAPPENED TO BE A TASK OF A COMPANY AND A BODY. ECINÓMICO WHEREAS the development of a country have to be measured by REUSE MAKING ALL WASTE. In that sense we long way from developing since everything we have to import. MANY BELIEVE OUR MANAGEMENT MEASURE THE POSSIBILITY OF SOCIALISM TO DO BUY. I THINK THIS IS KNOWN FOR ALL WE CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY AND SOCIALISM. ULLOA. In 2010, the Ministry of Education realized savings of just over one hundred million pesos on budget, thanks to the reduction of boarders, the reordering of the school network and careful measures of material resources. Photo: Raul Pupo.