Chimbán!

To get from Cajamarca to Chimbán, you must cross the territory of four provinces and, at least, a dozen towns. Now that the roads are in better condition than a few years ago, direct travel would take a day ... but since there is no direct route, it is better to leave early today to arrive tomorrow at the end of the afternoon.

Our brother Jesús Oswaldo Quispe Delgado is Coordinator of Rural Libraries in the district of Pión (to get there better we do not get accounts because we even have to cross through the Amazonas region) and was invited by community members from Chimbán: "Here we also want to have our Rural Libraries ", they told him.

Jesus Oswaldo consulted and received the order to go to the area to see what happened.

After several days of walking, he called us: sixteen communities are asking us to have their rural library.

Does it mean that there is more interest in having libraries? No: it means that there is interest in the raison d'être of our libraries, that they are opening up more the desire to read the world and embrace it, not to let themselves be dragged down by impostors and superficiality, not to let themselves be snatched from the conviction of hope.

Thank you for that enormous effort, Jesús Oswaldo. We have sent the books right now. And we are getting ready to go visit them.