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In 2011 I co-founded the Rutu Foundation for Intercultural Multilingual Education, a non-profit organization which supports the realization of the right to a good quality education for all children and aims at the protection and use and transmission of languages and traditional knowledge of indigenous and tribal peoples and minorities.
Our activities include the design of bilingual educational materials which are available as open source online documents which teachers and community members can adapt to their own language and context. A pilot with 3 indigenous and tribal languages in Suriname is currently underway, while our partner institute the University of Querétaro in Mexico has l..
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