There is an error of attribution in the following paragraphs. The translation projects to Aymara and Quechua have not been supported by the Ministry nor OLPC. In order to clarify, it was the*Somos Azúcar international team **( http://www.somosazucar.org/ )***who is responsible for such initiatives.

Looking forward for a correction,
Sebastian Silva
Somos Azúcar

From OLPC's blog: http://blog.laptop.org/2011/04/05/peru-to-expand-to-1m-xos/
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"And the Peru Ministry of Education continues to invest in developing new Sugar applications and learning games for their own schools and others, *finishing translations of Sugar into Aymara and Quechua,* and translating a teacher’s curriculum guide — most recently into French for schools in Madagascar."
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From Businesswire: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110405006842/en/Government-Peru-Expands-Laptop-Child-Program-Local

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In addition, Peru is playing a significant role in developing applications for Sugar, the learning platform that runs on the XO laptop. Engineers in Lima have written interactive learning games; *a team in Puno is translating the software into Aymara and Quechua*; and a curriculum guide written by a Peruvian teacher has been recently translated into French for schools to use it in Madagascar -- all further evidence of the great impact that the Ministry of Education (MEC)-OLPC project has had both domestically and globally.
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Asunto: Re: [Marketing] OLPC PR on BusinessWire: The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing
Fecha:  Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:58:41 -0500
De:     Rafael Ortiz <raf...@activitycentral.com>
A:      Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com>
CC:     Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org>



Noticed on olpc-blog


http://blog.laptop.org/2011/04/05/peru-to-expand-to-1m-xos/

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