Children's Literacy & Language Revitalization

Here you will find children’s literacy projects that we aim to support and promote, particularly those that aim to revitalize indigenous languages in Belize.

Language is culture. many indigenous languages are threatened with extinction. These efforts to teach and engage the next generation in such threatened indigenous languages ultimately help to sustain indigenous culture into the future. We hope that you will find them engaging and worthy of support.

To the Mountain!/A La Montaña/Ta Witz - Fajina Archaeology Outreach

Archaeologically-informed, tri-lingual (Yucatec, Spanish, English) children’s book

Written by: Sylvia Batty, Rebecca Friedel, & Leah McCurdy

Translations by: Mrs. Cesiah Boryczka and students (Spanish) and Mr. Fernando Tzib (Yucatec Maya)

Illustrated by: Frederic Wierum

Ximb’al Ich Nukche’/A Walk in the Jungle/Una Caminata por la Selva - Stanley Peck

Tri-lingual (Mopan, Spanish, English) children’s book

Written by: Stanley Peck

Illustrated by: Richard Karl Peck Jr.

Edited by: Richard Peck and Nicole Hober

Spanish version by: Camila Cruz Villa