E11 | Ways to School | Luz Maria, Mexico

Luz María is 13 years old, she lives in the indigenous community of Loma Ancha in the conflicting Mexican state of Oaxaca. To get to school, where they receive a bilingual education in Spanish and Triqui (their mother tongue), Luz María, her sister Araceli and her cousin Yahir daily undertake a 4.4 kilometers journey. During a two hours and a half trip they go through ups and downs and face vertiginous slopes. They go from one mountain to another by narrow paths, eroded earth, a mighty river, rattlesnakes and other predators, landslides, and a highway of cars going at high speed.