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ABOUT KATE WEBB

I'm a Canadian journalist who has recently hopped the pond to Kent, U.K. to work for Northcliffe Media. My main reporting interests are political, environmental and investigative, but I also love adventure travel stories.

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Sunday
16Aug2009

Education key to jungle communities

The Province, Sun Aug 16 2009, Page: C1 / FRONT

Students of Felipe Serrano Moscoso Elementary school want scholarships. KW photoDeep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a young indigenous boy with a winning smile rose from his wooden desk to announce his career ambition.

"My name is Nelson Shiguango. I am 12 years old and I want to study tourism," he said, looking around at the audience of 10 tourists who had come to meet his class.

He was followed by one of the other seven children sitting in his humid classroom. Showers beat down occasionally on the one-room school's corrugated tin roof and ran down its cement walls.

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