The Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands has decided to award the Viera y Clavijo Prize for the year 2018 to the former director of the Adopted Free School of Haría, María Luis Perdomo Sosa, thus accepting the proposal raised by the northern City Council. This distinction recognizes people who have collaborated "in a manifest and outstanding way in the achievement of the objectives of participation, equity and quality in the educational system of the Canary Islands", requirements that the City Council considered that the winner met.
"Her work in the field of education in our municipality has been fundamental for thousands of students to finish their university studies", said the mayor, Marci Acuña, who has expressed the "satisfaction" of the City Council for the granting of this award.
"The municipality of Haría is proud that Mrs. María Luisa Perdomo Sosa has been deservedly recognized by the Ministry of Education for the work carried out in favor of the education of several generations of young northerners", added the mayor.
The second Lanzarote woman of her generation with university studies
María Luisa Perdomo Sosa graduated in Classical Philology, Latin and Greek from the University of La Laguna, becoming the second woman from Lanzarote and her generation to complete university studies, according to the City Council. After finishing her training, she taught classes in several destinations in the Canary Islands and in the Peninsula until in the 60s she joined the Blas Cabrera Felipe Institute of Arrecife.
Later, when in July 1967 the Ministry of Education authorized the start-up of the Adopted Free School of Intermediate Education of Mixed Elementary Grade of Haría, the second oldest on the island of Lanzarote, Perdomo entered on a commission of services to this center, where she worked as a teacher and took over the direction of the school until it later became an extension of the Blas Cabrera Felipe Institute of Arrecife during the 1975/1976 academic year, when she continued as head of studies at the center.
"Motivated by the application of the General Law of Education of 1970, Mrs. María Luisa Perdomo Sosa has been a key pillar in the history of education in Haría, not only as a teacher, encouraging and encouraging young people to continue their studies, but also from the administrative field", they emphasize from the City Council, which recalls that among other things she was part of the working group formed by the Municipal Corporation and the teaching staff to launch a transport service that would guarantee the transfer of students from the towns of Guatiza, El Mojón, Teseguite and Los Valles and from the areas furthest from the municipality, thus allowing them to continue their studies.
"For more than 19 years, Mrs. María Luisa contributed with her work to make the dream of the people of Haría a reality: to ensure that the young people of the municipality could finish their secondary studies without having to move to the capital of the Island", they conclude from the Consistory.
