The Draft Law on Afro inclusion in the school curriculum will be presented by the Minister of Education, Maruja Gorday de Villalobos, before the Cabinet Council.
This commitment was achieved after the meeting held in the Superior Office of MEDUCA, on Thursday, January 19, with the participation of the National Secretariat for the Development of Afro-Panamanians -SENADAP-, the Directorate of Ethnic Groups of the Mayor’s Office of Panama, the National Coordinator of Panamanian Black Organizations -CONEGPA- and the Panama Afro Observatory
During the session, the historian Agatha Williams offered interesting guidelines that guide the bill emanating from the Afro-Panamanian social movement as a whole, after a long process of collective construction, in different instances, including the Afro-Panamanian Forum.
The Draft Law adopts as a public and State policy the inclusion of History and the contributions of Afro-descendants in the curriculum of Basic and Secondary Education of the country’s educational system.
