Ola listeners, for this special season of the Duolingo Spanish podcast, we'll be revisiting

some of our favorite stories from indigenous communities across Latin America.

Throughout the region, these communities have kept their customs and traditions alive for hundreds

of years.

To this day, they remain resilient and bold,

reshaping the world as we know it. Today we'll travel to the mountains of Peru to hear an

episode from November 2021 featuring Javier Gamboa. He has transformed the lives of hundreds of Quechuan children through books, but it all started unexpectedly.

Keep listening to hear his story and stay tuned until the end for an update from Javier himself.

Now, on to the episode.

In May of 2013, Javier Gamboa was visiting Jolchabamba, a rural village in one of the poorest areas of Peru.

He was 47 years old and a photographer from Lima.

On this trip, he was taking several bags of school supplies to the only school in town.

That was the only school in Holjabamba.

He had 200 students of all the ages, and many were from peoples and many people of the people of the

majority were people with

the most recursos

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