Sol Maria was born in Nicaragua in 1985. She is now a PHD student in the Netherlands. We hope that someday she will reconnect with her U.S. family. We miss her terribly.
Sol's mother Kenia was one of the youth who worked with the literacy campaign in Nicaragua. When the Sandinistas came to power in 1979, they initiated a program to send teachers to the rural areas. Within five months the illiteracy rate in Nicaragua dropped from 50% to 12%. This is a trailer from a film about the Cuban literacy campaign.