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Peru: Maritza Valdés Torres Dreams for her Daughter

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This brief video features Maritza Valdés Torres, a rural mother from Mancura in Peru, speaking about how shool closures affected her young daughter’s learning and her own role as a caregiver and home educator. She describes the challenge of replacing in‑person teaching, yet shares her determination to support her daughter’s education so she can one day enter university and become a successful professional, despite the absence of her father and the family’s vulnerable circumstances.