on Friday participated in a ceremony to lay the first stone of Educational Institution No. 5051 Virgen de Fatima (Our Lady of Fatima) in Callao region's Ventanilla district.
At the site, the Head of State mentioned that investment in the education sector had been postponed for 200 years, which has an impact on educational infrastructure debt which reaches S/111 billion (about US$29.72 billion).
"We have not come to complain; this is a sign that the private entity, the local authority, the minister, the mayor, and the regional governor must stand united, like a single fist to prove that in this administration, and the administrations to come, education must be a fundamental right," Mr. Castillo pointed out.
The top official also emphasized that efforts must be undertaken to put an end to school dropouts, adding that children should never be treated as "dropouts" because the system itself is what has prompted them to leave schools without a diploma.