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His spirit of overcoming and commitment to the study led him to achieve the highest teaching scaleHis work Simi Pirwa collects more than 10,000 words in Quechua and Spanish and is recognized at the national and international level
Nereo Hancco Mamani is an extraordinary teacher who has dedicated much of his life to sheltering Quechua, his original language, and thanks to his tireless work of promoting intercultural bilingual education, he obtained scholarships to follow his studies abroad while strengthening his experience in the pedagogical field, which finally allowed him to reach the eighth and maximum scale of the magisterial public career.
The teacher, born in 1966 in the peasant community of Khururana of the Santa Rosa district, Puno, has become one of the main guardians of our ancestral language with the creation of unpublished works and literary texts that seek to maintain and revitalize Quechua in the Andean areas of Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile.
Nereo Hancco discovered his pedagogical talent when he was barely a child, and years later hugged teaching. In the Magisterium, he focused his work on the documentation, teaching and promotion of Quechua, until consolidating his Simi Pirwa Summit work, a dictionary that collects more than 10,000 words in Quechua and Castilian, and which was recognized by the Ministry of Education and, subsequently, at the international level.
I have been teaching 40 years; since I was a child I had economic deficiencies because I was a father orphan at age 2, and with my mother and 4 brothers I had to migrate to Sicuani in search of better opportunities. I remember that we lived in a rented rustic house and to help my mother had to sell pacifiers, cookies and breads in the streets during the weekends, he says.
The teacher recalls that, at the insistence of a neighbor, his mother enrolled him in the educational institution No. 56002 Sicuani Rosaspata, where he currently serves as deputy director. There he learned the Castilian with his teacher, who was Quechua -speaking, and began to stand out in subjects such as Language and History, and was fascinated when he read the works of Jose Maria Arguedas and Cesar Vallejo.
When he was in the fifth grade of primary, he won a composition contest, and since then his achievements were unstoppable. High school barely culminated, he went on to study at the Pedagogical Institute Tupac Amaru de Ink, Cusco, and then continued his training in various universities in the country and abroad.
Thanks to a scholarship of the Ford Foundation, I studied a masters degree in Bilingual Intercultural Education in Bolivia; I also studied at the La Rioja University of Spain and at The University of Arkansas of the United States. In 2013, I received the magisterial palms in the degree of educator and I was awarded as a Bicentennial Master of Peru in 2021, he says.
Nereo Hancco is the author of 18 works on the Quechua language and unpublished poems published in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. In addition, he promoted the production of texts written by his own students and, thanks to the project Cultural values around the farm, received the National Award for Good Intercultural Practices 2006.
The outstanding teacher is also passionate about music and dominates Andean instruments such as quena, charango and guitar. During his youth he joined various musical groups in Sicuani such as the Amarus de ink and the Taytas of Peru, who had their golden age in the 90s and 2000s.
The history of Nereo Hancco becomes an example that shows us the importance of dedication and that study can transform the lives of human beings.
