Students who benefit from the Church's Perpetual Education Fund don't have to worry about loan payments and interest charges until at least November 2020, according to a July 23 Church announcement. Read More
Thirteen years after President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the beginning of the Perpetual Education Fund, the program is thriving in this West African nation. Read More
Toward the end of 2004, I returned home after serving as a full-time missionary in the Buenos Aires South Mission Read More
When Omar Perez returned home to Guatemala from his mission to San Jose, Costa Rica, in 2001, he knew he needed to begin working and started to look for employment. He did not have a college degree or vocational skill and because of that, he was very limited in job options. Read More
The Perpetual Education Fund was taken to young adults of the Church's Lusaka Zambia District for the first time with a recent visit by Elder James C. Von Stetten and Sister Aleta Maureen Von Stetten, area missionaries for the PEF in the Africa Southeast Area. Read More
Elder John K. Carmack, an emeritus Seventy and executive director of the Perpetual Education Fund, told the Salt Lake City chapter of the BYU Management Society on Sept. 10 the PEF has now helped more than 38,000 Latter-day Saints in 42 countries since 2001. Read More
In the 18 months since President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the need to help educate young men and women in less advantaged countries, the Church has issued 5,360 loans through its Perpetual Education Fund. Read More
Elder Richard E. Cook, formerly of the Seventy and current financial director of the Perpetual Education Fund, talked about the importance of the Perpetual Education Fund at the BYU-Idaho devotional Tuesday. Read More
More than 2,400 loans have been extended during the past year through the Church's Perpetual Education Fund, said President Gordon B. Hinckley Saturday morning. Read More
"The beneficiaries are learning true principles of self-reliance. Their vision of their potential is greatly broadened." Read More