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EIB - Bilingual Intercultural Education

The EIB (Bilingual Intercultural Education) is a national policy created by the peruvian govermment that aims to promote and provide the right and service of education under the aproach of equiality for the indigenous cultures while protecting their identity. Peruvian schools in indigenous territory must provide the service first on their mother tonge, then spanish and then privde a foreign language. Acording to the law, the Ley general de Educación 28055: 'the State recognise and ensure the rights of indigenous people to education in condtions of equality between them and the rest of the citizens'.

However, in the small school of the native community of New Ceilán, where they speak the shipibo-konibo language (mother tonge of more than 34,000 peruvians and the 5th more spoken in the whole country) the reality shows its real face: lack of infrastructure, budget cuts, deficit of teachers and lack of support from the national authorities. Despite this, i arrived by luck when they were celebrating and aniversary of the EIB policy's creation in the region. 

Is it possible for a national anthem to have the same meaning in all the different languages that the country that represents contains?

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