Education takes place in classrooms, libraries, workshops, and the everyday spaces where knowledge passes between generations. We explore access to learning, the recognition of different languages and ways of knowing, and the efforts of communities to create opportunities for critical thinking, cultural continuity, and the freedom to choose one's own future.
The berimbau sets the rhythm. In Acupé, a quilombola community on Brazil’s Bahia coast, capoeira gives children and adults a place to learn, challenge one another, and belong. Inside the roda, music and movement carry a history of resistance into everyday life.
At the Centro Educativo Pavarotti in Guatemala, a graduation ceremony reveals an approach to education rooted in academic excellence, Maya identity, and the freedom of young people to choose their own futures.