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A hundred activities, administrative and educational, were devised and pursued for the prosecution of this noble Plan. Through the liberal contribution of funds; through the establishment of an Inter- America Committee and the formation of auxiliary Regional Teaching Committees; through the founding of an International School to provide training for Baha'i teachers; through the settlement of pioneers in virgin areas and the visits of itinerant teachers; through the dissemination of literature in Spanish and Portuguese; through the initiation of teacher training courses and extension work by groups and local Assemblies; through newspaper and radio publicity; through the exhibition of Temple slides and models; through inter- community conferences and lectures delivered in universities and colleges; through the intensification of teaching courses and Latin American studies at summer schools-- through these and other activities the prosecutors of this Seven- Year Plan have succeeded in sealing the triumph of what must be regarded as the greatest collective enterprise ever launched by the followers of Baha'u'llah in the entire history of the first Baha'i century. (399:1) Indeed, ere the expiry of that century not only had the work on the Temple been completed sixteen months before the appointed time, but instead of one tiny nucleus in every Latin Republic, Spiritual Assemblies had already been established in Mexico City and Puebla (Mexico), in Buenos Aires (Argentina), in Guatemala City (Guatemala), in Santiago (Chile), in Montevideo (Uruguay), in Quito (Ecuador), in Bogota (Colombia), in Lima (Peru), in Asuncion (Paraguay), in Tegucigalpa (Honduras), in San Salvador (El- Salvador), in San Jose and Puntarenas (Costa Rica), in Havana (Cuba) and in Port- au- Prince (Haiti). Extension work, in which newly fledged Latin American believers were participating, had, moreover, been initiated, and was being vigorously carried out, in the Republics of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica; believers had established their residence not only in the capital cities of all the Latin American Republics, but also in such centers as Veracruz, Cananea and Tacubaya (Mexico), in Balboa and Christobal (Panama), in Recife (Brazil), in Guayaquil and Ambato (Ecuador), and in Temuco and Magellanes (Chile); the Spiritual Assemblies of the Baha'is of Mexico City and of San Jose had been incorporated; in the former city a Baha'i center, comprising a library, a reading room and a lecture room, had been founded; Baha'i Youth Symposiums had been observed in Havana, Buenos Aires and Santiago, whilst a distributing center of Baha'i literature for Latin America had been established in Buenos Aires.
(399:2)
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