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Peru faces challenges in education for indigenous children</h1><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px">By Rachel Chase</p>
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<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Bilingual education a necessity in many regions.</p></h2></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Eduardo Vega Luna, Peru’s ombudsman (“defensor del pueblo”), announced yesterday the release of a new study evaluating Peru’s efforts to provide education in indigenous languages.</span><br>
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2007 government statistics published in a <a href="http://www.care.org.pe/pdfs/cinfo/libro/EDU_020_eduintind.pdf" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,102,204);text-decoration:none">report</a> by <span class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">UNICEF</span> and other charitable organizations reveal that more than 12% of school age children in Peru speak an indigenous tongue as their first language. In some provinces, that figure rises well over 50%: in 72.58% of children in Apurímac and 62.82% in Huancavelica speak Quechua as their first language. However, the Defensoría del Pueblo reports that most provinces devote less than 1% of their educational resources to intercultural and bilingual education.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px"></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Access full article below: </p>
<div><a href="http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-peru-faces-challenges-in-education-for-indigenous-children-100900">http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-peru-faces-challenges-in-education-for-indigenous-children-100900</a><br></div>
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