Parents of deaf children in Iquitos, Peru begin to meet and establish the Association Iquitos United in Signs (AIUS) - Asociación Iquitos Unidos en Señas.

AIUS holds a fundraiser and flies in deaf education experts from Lima to provide support on how to establish a school for the deaf.

AIUS signs an agreement with an existing school - CEBA 'Mariscal Oscar R. Benavides' - to open Periférico AIUS. It is the first public deaf education program in the city of Iquitos.

Due to a lack of space at exisiting schools, the parents of AIUS renovate the second floor of a donated space to host the deaf education program.

Periférico AIUS opens for the first time with a multigrade primary classroom and a multigrade secondary classroom. CEBA 'Mariscal Oscar R. Benavides' provides hearing teachers and AIUS supports with sign language interpreters.

After searching for Peruvian deaf teachers without success, AIUS brings two deaf teachers from Colombia - Alejandro Santamaria Hernandez and Jessica Perez Aponte - who continue to teach in Iquitos today.

AIUS signs an agreement with the Instituto Superior de Educación Público - Loreto (a teacher training college in Iquitos) to host the deaf education program on their campus. 

AIUS enters its 9th year. To date, 12 students have graduated from the program. Three have gone on to study higher education and three are working as deaf language models in the public school system.