U.S. Ambassador Krishna Urs and Peruvian Minister of Education Daniel Alfaro Paredes celebrated the culmination of more than 70 years of collaboration to improve the education system in Peru in an event with guests from the education sector of Peru, members of the diplomatic community, and officials of the Peruvian Government. 

US Government education programs in Peru began with the establishment and construction of rural schools under the Peruvian-American Educational Cooperation Service in 1944.  In 1963, USAID helped found the first graduate business school in Latin America, the School of Business Administration for Graduates (ESAN).  In recent decades, with USAID’s support, Peru adopted important educational policies to increase school funding, improve the quality of universal basic education, and increase the access of girls to education, especially in rural areas.  More recently, USAID’s partnership with Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and regional governments improved the reading ability of children in remote Amazonian regions of the country, through the innovative Amazon Reads program.  

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