School in Lamarca - A escola em Lamarca

Boys running to school before 7 am.

The current school building (Gilmar's house).

Teacher Nirley watching over the kids from the window during a break.

Rafael concentrating on school work.

Lamarca is a landless movement's (called Liga dos Camponeses Pobres) settlement some three hours by bus from Jaru. There is a tiny school of less than 10 students (at the moment) for grades 1-4. The students are temporarily using one of the houses as a school building and they're hoping to get their new school built before the beginning of the next academic year that starts in February 2009.