Peru faces challenges in education for indigenous children (fwd link)

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Peru faces challenges in education for indigenous children

By Rachel Chase

Bilingual education a necessity in many regions.
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.

2007 government statistics published in a
report<http://www.care.org.pe/pdfs/cinfo/libro/EDU_020_eduintind.pdf>
 by UNICEF 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.

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