UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover and a boy use learning tiles to form words in Shipibo, the local indigenous language, during his visit to the primary school in the indigenous Shipibo-Conibo community of Nuevo Saposoa in the Peruvian Amazon. The school provides bilingual inter-cultural education for indigenous children. All classes are taught in the Shipibo language. In Ucayali Region, the Ministry of Education and UNICEF are providing books written in the local language and supporting teacher-training in the indigenous language and culture.
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