10x10 Peru Production Trip: Update 1

We flew from Lima, Peru to a town in the mountain plains where we were met by three care employees We went to schools in the highlands that serve indigenous Quechua children. Beautiful schools and these girls are all very very proud to be Quechua and it is a great time to be here in Peru because for the first time the government is at least trying to embrace this notion of a bilingual education within the curriculum that places emphasis on the importance of your heritage. This has never happened before and Karen is right in the center of it. So we went to two schools we saw Quechua dancers, poets, singers, these kids with costumes and in their school uniforms. They hugged us, they kissed us. The principals were there their proud mothers were there and it was stunning. These are two care programs, they provide school supplies They provide school uniforms for families who can't afford them But most importantly, they train the teachers They do ''outreach'' kind of group sessions with the parents to kind of reinvigorate them to embrace their past, and all this is is being done in a time in Peru when being Quechua and being indigenous is a hot-button issue.