MayaMam Weavers Learning to Read and Write

Many of us did not have the chance to go to school when we were growing up. Some of us were orphans, some of our parents didn't have enough money to send us to school, and other parents just wanted their male children to go to school. Our teacher, Anadelmi, comes four days a week to teach us to read and write. Sometimes she teaches us how to fill out some of the paperwork we need to fill out as part of the business, like sales summaries, or our records of our work. For some of us it takes a long time, but we are proud when little by little we can change those characters into words that mean something. And you know, when we can read at work, we can read at home, too, and begin to help our children with their studies.