Sixty-four female migrant workers from the Sandu Shui autonomous county, Guizhou province, will attend classes in Changzhou city, Jiangsu province, in a vocational school that opened on Sunday.

The school, provided by the Sandu county government, is for illiterate and semiliterate women workers from the county who now work in Changzhou, to improve their education level and working skills.

The school has two classes according to women’s educational level, where they will spend two hours every Thursday night learning how to read, count and use computers.

The school will also teach them how to protect their legal rights and about women’s healthcare.

The women are expected to be able to read newspapers and solve simple counting problems after six months of classes.