Grandma Graduates From Primary School At 100

A Mexican grandmother has graduated from primary school
at the age of 100.


Manuela Hernandez, who was born in the state of Oaxaca in June 1913,
left primary school after just a year to help her
poor family with the household chores.


She only resumed her studies last October at the age of 99
at the recommendation of one of her grandchildren.


She has now been handed her diploma at a celebration held
in the southern Mexican state.


"I liked school very much, but I could not continue
studying," she told Uno TV.


"By the next year I could already wash and iron."
Ms Hernandez says she will now continue her studies in
secondary school.


More than half of Oaxaca state residents older than 15 have
not completed their primary education.