My mother had no education, and perhaps that was the reason she always encouraged us to go to school. “Don’t wake up like me and realize what you missed years later,” she says. She’s faced so many challenges in her daily life in England because, up until now, she’s had difficulty communicating when she’s gone shopping or to the doctor or the bank. Getting an education is helping her become more confident, so that she can speak up outside the home, not just inside it with us.
