Museum of the Literacy Crusade
Museum of the Literacy Crusade (Universidad Centroamericana, Pista de la Resistencia, Managua) – this museum is dedicated to the literacy campaign that was launched by the Nicaraguan government when it was under Sandinista rule in 1980. That campaign was most relevant in the country’s vast rural regions (where illiteracy was as high as 90% at the time). The campaign resulted in some 400,000 people learning to read and write to the extent that they were able to pass a grade 3 level exam. Fortunately for the Sandinistas, the literacy campaign was completed just before the launch of the “Contra” war in 1981 (which would have rendered such efforts very difficult, if not impossible, since much of the fighting took place in the countryside and
In provincial towns).