In many ways, a General Assembly of the Network is a festival, for the joy that is shared and the enthusiasm that is lavished, but - perhaps even more so - for its sense of celebration and homage.
It is a time to evaluate and plan, to train together, to rescue our traditions and to celebrate our all'pata paguikun (the offering to the earth, to the apus and the deceased).
But this time we also celebrated the coming together for 'minga' (working voluntarily in community): from five in the morning we were already cleaning the house, patching the walls, arranging the gardens, fixing the ceilings and looking after our spaces.
Large and small, women and men, alone and in groups, coming from all corners of the region, the rural librarians remind us of the value of the community. And the certainty that it is possible to grow together.
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