The ILTI (International Literacy Training Institute) in Ica, Peru was very productive. We stayed in a Pardise with fresh fruit growing on trees all around us. Fifteen literacy coordinators were trained, including Augusto and Carolyn, but the most impressive part was having six highly qualified Aguarunas (three Bible translators) together, preparing the primer in their own language the last two weeks. We found that Augusto’s trip to Amazonas was timed precisely to bring Riquilda, and her father, Tomás Dati, to help us. Four other Aguarunas attended as well. The first two weeks two Quechua brothers from the North received training in how to prepare teachers to use their primer, prepared just last year. Spanish-speakers came from Iquitos and other jungle parts of Peru. Trainers and consultants came from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and from within Peru.
