Ensena por Argentina in underprivileged schools

María Laura and Emilia are passionate, curious educators—the kind who sign up for every opportunity to grow and stay up to date. Both work in underserved schools in Maipú, a town about 15 kilometers from downtown Mendoza, Argentina. Despite their many similarities, they had never met—until 2021, when they joined the first Mendoza cohort of the Collective Leadership Program.

From that moment on, they became an innovative teaching duo, breaking down classroom walls and even crossing borders. Together, they launched an educational exchange with a rural community in Tonah, near Puebla, Mexico. The project invited students from Mendoza and Mexico to write letters to one another, asking anything they were curious about. What started as simple letters grew into something much deeper.

The connection between the two communities became so strong that it sparked a creative exchange: students began weaving tapestries in Mendoza, which were then completed in Mexico. These woven pieces became powerful symbols of the educational and emotional ties formed across borders—threads of learning, empathy, and collaboration that now bind two distant communities together.