Between 900 and 1000 monolingual and partially bilingual Cusco Quechua learners enrol in the programme every year.
Quechua-speaking people live in and around the national park, practicing a community-based agrarian life that has remained little-changed since the time of the Incas.
The mountain's highest peak is the Guagua ("child" in Quechua), a two-hour hike from the town of Lloa, a one-hour drive south-west of Quito.
Increasing poverty, and anger that sacred Quechua sites were being exploited, led to a violent four-day occupation of one Canadian-owned gold mine in 1996.
There he met, and later married, Eliane Karp, a Belgian anthropologist (now a banker), who speaks Quechua, Peru's main indigenous language and has been campaigning with her husband.
As a result, some are now able to read the Bible during church meetings, while others are being trained to produce and publish written materials in the Quechua language.
For example, the joint ATEK-church literacy programmes for children have spilled over into the local school system because school teachers often invite ATEK facilitators to teach Quechua reading in their classes.
Foundation programme called Accesso Chakipi ("to your home" in Quechua), backed by billionaires Frank Giustra and Carlos Slim, is building a network of thousands of sales agents both to improve health and create jobs.
From the arrival platform at roughly 4, 000 metres it takes a couple of hours to hike up to the Pichincha's summit, Rucu ("old person" in the local Quechua language) just below 4, 700 metres.
For example, ATEK literacy programme graduates, Wilfredo Apaza and Marisol Martinez, completed formal secondary education and teacher training courses and have now been recruited by a local bilingual school to teach religion and literacy in Quechua.
It was a voice so sonorously deep, yet so delicately controlled, that it seemed to issue forth from the Pachamama herself, the earth goddess of the Quechua-speaking people of the Inca empire from whom Ms Sosa partially descended.
These states form a giant half-moon across Bolivia's relatively prosperous eastern half, an area dominated by a largely mestizo and white population that has began to see with skepticism the newfound influence of the Aymara and Quechua Indian population of Bolivia's western Andean highlands.
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