Employees of Xel-Ha, Mexico’s Natural Wonder, received their certificate for concluding their primary and secondary school degrees, as well as an economic grant, after having finished the proper evaluations required by the National Institute for Adult Education (INEA).
During the act led by Francisco Javier Novelo Ordoñez, head of the INEA in Quintana Roo, Xel-Ha’s executive director, Elizabeth Lugo Monjarras remarked on the importance of maintaining the necessary support for employees to continue with their academic preparation, “since it is never too late to learn;” work that has been carried on from 13 years until now. With this achievement, Xel-Ha has at last reached the 100% mark in alphabetising its 500-plus employees, with at least a primary school away.
During the ceremony, primary school certificates were presented to three Xel-Ha employees assigned to maintenance, recreational activities, and public area departments, as well as another 15 that received their secondary school degrees, members of the same former departments as well as sustainable development, security, shops, and food and beverages. As an acknowledgment to this effort, the company presented each employee with a $2000 MXP incentive, totalling $36000 for all graduates.
During his speech, Francisco Javier Novelo praised Xel-Ha’s priorities towards the education of its employees, “since it is not only a benefit to each and every one of them, but their company and their children, since they bring great benefit to both thanks to their educational background.” The official remarked on how 25% of Quintana Roo’s population is educationally underdeveloped, 56 thousand inhabitants cannot read or write, 93 thousand have not finished primary school, and another 172 thousand have not finished secondary education.
However he added that only 25% of the 320 thousand recorded inhabitants with an educational lag are native to the state, the other 75% representing the immigrant population from states such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Guerrero, Yucatan, and Campeche, which further complicates the state’s attention to this issue.
The government official emphasised the importance of strengthening relations with Xel-Ha to support permanent educational programs for the population without primary school certification, as well as a way to resolve the technologically analphabetic dilemma, allowing more and better access to computers, as fundamental tools of dire necessity to affront the modern world.
The ceremony was attended by Raul Huex, head of CONEVYT, Miguel Angel Parra, IEEA coordinator in the Riviera Maya, and Jose Gabriel Gutierrez, head of the tourism department at Tulum, Eugenio Cante, on behalf of the CROC worker’s syndicate, and Rocio Peraza, from the SNTEA.
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