Rodolfo Dugarte Sanchez has a dream. The young teacher from the Venezuelan Andes wants the children of the remote village of Las Plumas to learn to read and write. He regularly walks almost four hours to teach them.
Rodolfo had just started building a school when the pandemic hit. He’s made no progress since. The crisis-ridden state of Venezuela is not supporting him. The provincial government in Mérida also seems indifferent to the children in the mountains.
Rodolfo was born and grew up in the remote Venezuelan Andean village of Los Nevados. Los Nevados is located in the Sierra Nevada National Park in the Venezuelan Andes. Here, the majestic Andes mountain range rises up, stretching across nearly the whole of South America.
Far from the political events and unrest in Venezuela's big cities, the inhabitants here live a simple life characterized by agriculture and livestock farming. There are almost no televisions here, let alone cell phone reception. Rodolfo was one of the few adolescents who was able to attend secondary school. He then studied hotel management in the provincial capital, before returning home.
When he found out that there was a village where the children had no schooling options, he made his way there. Since then, he has been fighting to build a school for the children, because he knows that education is the key to a better future.
Now, the pandemic is over and Rodolfo wants to resume his project. Will he succeed in building the children of Las Plumas a school?
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