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Michoacán invests 10 million pesos in 10,000 Paracho guitars for middle schools

From El Universal · () Spanish

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  • Michoacán allocated 10 million pesos to buy 10,000 guitars made by artisans in Paracho for public middle schools.
  • The program will provide 9,500 instruments to students and 500 to arts teachers across 613 schools, benefiting 180,000 students.
  • Fifteen artisan workshops took part, generating direct benefits for more than 400 families in Paracho.

Michoacán is putting 10,000 guitars made in Paracho into its public middle schools after investing 10 million pesos in the instruments.

The guitars will be distributed through the “Mexico Sings and Michoacán Plays with Paracho Guitars” program. Its aim is to bring music education closer to students while strengthening the economy of families who make the instruments by hand.

Of the total, 9,500 guitars will go to students and 500 to arts teachers, Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla said during the handover ceremony. The program is expected to reach 180,000 students at 613 schools across the state.

Fifteen artisan guitar workshops in Paracho participated in the initiative. The purchase is intended to support more than 400 families directly. Ramírez Bedolla said the strategy had been agreed a year earlier with President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and forms part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice.

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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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