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- **Posted:** 2026-09-08T10:17:23.000+00:00
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📖 Writing your own name. Counting your wages. Reading the label on your medicine. Finding your way when travelling to another town.

In Chiapas, Mexico, these everyday moments tell a larger story about literacy.

The state has the highest illiteracy rate in the country, at 13.7%, and is home to remarkable linguistic diversity: 28.2% of its population aged 3 and over speaks an Indigenous language.

Across its communities, educators teach in Spanish and Indigenous languages, adapting their teaching to the linguistic and cultural contexts of the learners they support.

Their work is part of Chiapas Puede, a state literacy programme reaching more than 140,000 learners every year — and one of the 2026 laureates of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes.

For #LiteracyDay, we travelled to Chiapas to meet the educators and learners behind these numbers.

Swipe to meet them and discover their stories. →

📍 Santiago el Pinar is a locality in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Antonio Gómez Gómez, 65, says literacy has transformed his life.

A farmer from Santiago El Pinar, he can now read, count his wages, identify his medicine at the pharmacy and find his way when travelling for work.

He learns in Spanish and Tzotzil, his mother tongue. And his study circle has brought people from different families together: “There is understanding, there is a lot of peace, a lot of calm.”

Now, Antonio wants others to have the same opportunity, so that his community can move forward together.

Antonio Gómez Gómez, 65, says literacy has transformed his life.

A farmer from Santiago El Pinar, he can now read, count his wages, identify his medicine at the pharmacy and find his way when travelling for work.

He learns in Spanish and Tzotzil, his mother tongue. And his study circle has brought people from different families together: “There is understanding, there is a lot of peace, a lot of calm.”

Now, Antonio wants others to have the same opportunity, so that his community can move forward together.

Antonio Gómez Gómez, 65, says literacy has transformed his life.

A farmer from Santiago El Pinar, he can now read, count his wages, identify his medicine at the pharmacy and find his way

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