Education for 250 working children in Chiapas

We are now finishing, in Santo Domingo, the identity project.

This project seeks that working children talk, reflect and recognize their individual and collective identity so that they can have a critical vision of their reality and their history. This individual and collective identity focuses on being a child, indigenous, and worker. We believe that understanding their identity they get to know a little more about their reality and they will have more elements to reflect, understand their life, and understand why what happens in it happens. Finally, we consider that it is a core process and that they claim their identity, what represents them, what they consider to be theirs and, if they consider something theirs, they demand and defend it. It is from this level that the perspective of human rights, right enjoyed and not enjoyed, is addressed from Lekil Kuxlejal (Good Life) or Mauk Lekil Kuxlejal (not good life).

This project is to be carried out so that together with children we can take a tour of the collective history of the indigenous families we accompany. And so girls and boys can locate the present reality throughout this history and can question and understand the origin of some of the inequalities or situations they live, be they positive or negative. Moms, dads and grandmothers have a lot of wisdom through oral tradition: history, stories, legends and others, which can contribute a lot to these activities. Knowing the history will also allow knowing the present of the girls, boys, their families and of San Cristóbal. Because knowing a little more of reality, children will have more elements to reflect and understand their lives, and understand situations that they live.