scholarships for indigenous students in Zacatecas

[idiez at MAC.COM]

Members of nahuat-l,
        The following is a request for donations to support indigenous college 
students at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, and their work at 
the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology.
        Low-income Nahua students from the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo and San 
Luis Potosí come to Zacatecas to study, because the state university 
here is one of the few remaining institutions of higher education in 
Mexico that still offers low tuition (20 dollars per semester), as well 
as free housing and meals. In the program we have set up here at the 
university, these students receive a small scholarship and in return 
fulfill their social service requirement by working on proyects 
designed to revitalize their culture. They study older and modern 
Nahuatl for one hour per day, and participate in the production of the 
first ever monolingual dictionary of Nahuatl, with word definitions and 
grammatical terminology in Nahuatl. They also help to teach Nahuatl to 
the mestizo students at the university.
        Would you like to support a Nahua college student at 50 dollars per 
month? The student will correspond with you weekly in Nahuatl via 
email. If you are interested, or would like to know more about what we 
do, please contacto me at idiez at mac.com.
	
John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Nahua language and culture
Centro de Estudios Prospectivos
Unidad Académica de Idiomas
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Director
Zacatecas Institute of Teaching and Research in Ethnology
Tacuba 152, int. 47
Centro Histórico
Zacatecas, Zac. 98000
Mexico
Work: +52 (492) 925-3415
Fax: +52 (492) 925-3416
Home: +52 (492) 768-6048
Mobile: +52 (492) 544-5985
idiez at mac.com
www.idiez.org.mx