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May 2019
18m 45s

Leímos y cantamos juntos (We Read and Sa...

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Laura Ortiz thought she could change the lives of children in Colombia’s most remote region by giving them books. But a trip there teaches her that she was the one who had much to learn from those communities.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3gcU5p2.

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