In rural Peru, many girls finish school without digital skills, internet, or electricity. ChicasTech brings solar energy, connectivity, and technology education to indigenous girls in the Andes and Amazon.

Millions of girls in rural Peru finish school without digital skills due to lack of electricity and internet. ChicasTech empowers indigenous girls in the Amazon and Andes with technology education, solar energy, and connectivity.

The rural digital divide in Peru is excluding thousands of girls from education, opportunity, and the digital economy. Discover how solar-powered connectivity and technological training for girls in indigenous Amazonian and Andean communities are building sustainable futures—and how you can help close the gap.

In Peru’s Andean highlands and Amazon region, monetary poverty and territorial isolation do not operate separately.

In the rural highlands of Peru, access to education is strongly shaped by geography, poverty, and long-standing territorial inequality.

In rural areas of Peru, school exclusion does not occur evenly across all ages. Evidence consistently shows that non-attendance increases sharply during secondary education, particularly in the rural Andes and Indigenous communities of the Amazon.