Embassy of the United States

PERUVIAN EXPERT ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WILL PARTICIPATE IN WEBCHAT
Ramiro Matos, curator from Smithsonian Institution and doctor of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, will participate in a virtual conference on indigenous people in Latin America. Webchat will be held on november 18th at 12:45 hrs. To participate go to https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/wha.

THREE PERUVIAN FEMALE INDUSTRIALISTS TRAVELED TO THE U.S.
The Deputy Chief of Mission James D. Nealon, wished success to Mercedes Benavides (Wayra); Jessica Rodriguez (Art Atlas Peru) and Lorena Medina (Sabine Vess), who traveled to the U.S. in order to participate in the subregional program “Pathways to Prosperity: Women and Entrepreneurship."

U.S. LUTHIER DANIEL PRIER DELIVERED A STRING INSTRUMENT REPAIR COURSE IN LIMA AND TRUJILLO
The lessons were sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in coordination with the Catholic University Music School and the Orquesta de Barro-Arpegio NGO in Trujillo. Program dates were October 5-16 in Lima and October 19-30 in Trujillo.

ON SEPTEMBER 24-26, OVER 70 TEACHERS TOOK PART IN A TRAINING CONFERENCE IN LIMA
The instruction was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, Fulbright, and the Ministry of Education. Training was from Higinio Ordonez from Mexico; ELF Sandra Anderson; RELO Kay Davis, and Desiree Flores. This cooperative effort to train public school English teachers in Peru marks a new era with the Min Ed.

PISAC COMMUNITY MUSEUM OPENING
This 23rd of September was the Pisac Community Museum opening, a joint effort of the Municipality of the District of Pisac and the Community Museum Association with the Interamerican Foundation (IAF) financing and the support of the National Museum of the American Indian of the United States and the Mexico’s Community Museums Union.