The Augusto N. Wiese Foundation, also known as the Wiese Foundation, is a private non-profit institution formally established in Peru by Don Augusto N. Wiese Eslava, on August 10, 1960. Its purpose is to promote the individual and collective good, through culture, education, scientific research, humanitarian causes and social innovation.
Aligned with its founding purpose, the Wiese Foundation is currently committed to four long-term programs or lines of collaboration: the El Brujo Archaeological Complex, Educational Quality, the Entrepreneurial Fund and Humanitarian Aid and, within this framework, it designs and executes various projects and interventions.
The committed work of a very diverse and competent team, together with multiple inter-institutional alliances with public and private entities, over more than 6 decades, has allowed the Foundation to fully comply with the mandate established in its statute of formation, as well as to build a solid institutional reputation.
In 1990, the Wiese Foundation signed its first agreement with the Ministry of Culture of Peru, through which the research, conservation, integral operation and dissemination of the El Brujo Archaeological Complex was commissioned. This cultural space, 100 hectares in size, synthesizes more than 14,000 years of the socio-cultural history of the women and men of the northern coast of Peru. It offers researchers an unparalleled possibility of recovering valuable knowledge through the study of their material culture, to then be given back to the society of the present, with the purpose of contributing to forging a future Peru with better citizens. To date, said agreement remains the only one of its kind in Peru.
By virtue of the aforementioned agreement, the Wiese Foundation has led and co-executed archaeological research and conservation projects, aside from promoting the dissemination and development of capabilities in the area of influence of the El Brujo Archaeological Complex. This has been accomplished with the participation of various institutional allies.
Aside from the Ministry of Culture, the Foundation has signed inter-institutional cooperation agreements with the Ministry of Education of Peru and the Regional Government of La Libertad. These agreements provide a legal framework and allow the Foundation’s articulated and organic work with local actors from the education sector, as well as with the entire educational community of a network of 23 schools that are currently part of the activities to promote educational quality directed and executed by the Foundation in the area of influence of the El Brujo Archaeological Complex.
If you want to know more about the work of the Wiese Foundation, throughout its 63 years of institutional life, and its four programs, you can visit us here: www.fundacionwiese.org
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