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Isabel Guerra

Amazonas-born teacher Italo Montenegro Delgado, who works at Victor Andres Belaunde rural school in this northern Peruvian region, has won Interbank-sponsored
El Maestro que Deja Huella (“
The Teacher who Leaves a Mark”) contest.
Montenegro teaches
Social Science in high school education, and his main concern is to stop kids from dropping out of school, so he developed a project that allows students to do work and help their families while attending school.
His school has created a coffee producers association, which currently exports coffee to the US and Europe and and also allows parents to keep the kids attending classes.
Interbank granted Montenegro Delgado the first place in this contest.
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