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Hidalgo was dispatched to school where his parents hoped he’d get a quality education, which was not available in his remote rural Peru village.
Turning Air Into Water In Rural Peru : When Max Hidalgo was 13 years old, his parents sent him away. Not as a punishment – even though the homesickness was sometimes so intense he could not bear it – but as a gift.
Hidalgo was dispatched to school where his parents hoped he’d get a quality education, which was not available in his remote rural Peru village.
“It was a massive sacrifice for my family but if it weren’t for that, I would never be where I am today,” said the 30-year-old biologist and inventor, who was honoured as one of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Young Champions of the Earth for 2020.