Milagros Choque is a third grade teacher in the Peruvian highlands: “Before teaching in Luis Pata, I worked in a very far away little school called Tanquigua, where I had to travel for several hours on public transportation until the end of the road, and then I had to walk. I arrived on the Monday morning and I went back home at the week-end or every two weeks, because it was such a long distance that I could not return every day. It was very difficult to be far away from my family, but this did not discourage me because the students in Tanquigua deserved a good education, the same as my children can receive”. She has been working in Luis Pata for three years. She is currently in charge of 26 students (19 girls and 7 boys) between 8 and 9 years of age, with whom she has bilingual classes, both in Quechua as in Spanish “The mother tongue of the children in this community is Quechua. Starting from this language, we start to build their knowledge and progressively I strengthen the Spanish.”
