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Look at the picture and read the title of the text. Have you ever heard of this person before?

Read the text and answer. a. Who is Rigoberta?b. What does she fight for?

Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959, in Chimel, Guatemala. Her family and her community suffered the repression of the Guatemalan regime; Her hometown was razed to the ground, leaving only twelve inhabitants out of four hundred. While Rigoberta lived through family tragedies, she worked in the fields to later become a domestic worker in Guatemala and learn Spanish on her own,with no university studies. She joined the"Unidad Campesina"Committee in 1979, and was forced into exile in Mexico where she arrived in 1981 supported by militant Catholic groups.

Already in exile, she started publicly denouncing the serious situation of the Guatemalan Indians.In August 1982, she became the first Guatemalan Indian to participate in the beginnings of the working group on indigenous populations at the UN, and in 1983 she published her book"My name is Rigoberta Menchú and that is how my conscience was born."In 1992, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,becoming the first indigenous person and the youngest person to receive it. In 1998, UNESC0awarded her the"Education for Peace Prize"She used the money from the Nobel Prize to establish the"Vicente Menchú Foundation,"which aims to support development projects for the indigenous people in Guatemala.

Adapted from: Menchú Tum, Rigoberta. Biografia: Menchú Tum, Rigoberta. (n.d.). Retrieved July 25, 2022, from: https://bit.ly/3J13AoR

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Investigate online, or in an encyclopedia, about other social fighters, such as Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela or Elena Caffarena.88Write and tell a story about one of the people you have chosen, using the text as a model. 8Role-play it in front of the class.

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Rigoberta Menchú is one of the most important indigenous leaders and activists in Guatemala



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UNIT 4 • Equality and Diversity • LESSON 1