Couplet of the couplers!

The third edition of “Coplita de los coplares - El Cantar de los Cantares en coplas campesinas” (Couplet of the couplers - The Song of the Singing in peasant couplets) has just come out, a work by our brother Alfredo Mires whose verses they are singing in the communities.

The first edition appeared in 1991 and has not stopped being read.

Soon we will be inviting its launch!

Come dear friends

come and sing with me

eat and drink without counting

Sing and dance with me.

Rescue in Paranshique

We also rescued our knowledge in Paranshique, Huamachuco.

There, with the pleasant support of the director of the educational center, the teaching team and in coordination with the Amigo Project, we shared with the children this remembrance that vitalizes us.

There is far still to go, but we are on the road.

Rescue in Quinuacruz

You should see the pleasure with which the children of the Quinuacruz school - province of Cajabamba - tell the stories of their parents and grandparents!

There we walked, rescuing the knowledge and in the desire to make a book that is like our mirror, in which we can read, get together, take root, keep walking.

lto Dorado reading

From the rural library "Hito fronterizo" (Border milestone)- precisely on the border of Peru with Ecuador - we also receive news of the reading spirit.

Professor José Onécimo Guerrero Aranda, librarian of Alto Dorado shares this spirit that continues to grow.

Our congratulations and hugs to you!

Appreciations

Argentine-Peruvian nationality, Isabel María Álvarez –educator, researcher and intercultural activist–, has sent us from Patagonia, where she lives and works, this comment born from the reading of “To keep walking”.

Thanks Isabel. Here we share these fruitful reflections:

It doesn’t matter how long the task takes when the purpose is so significant: to empower the people to recount themselves.

With the wise humility that characterizes his "being" in Earth, Alfredo Mires Ortiz shares his itinerary to the East - that direction from where the light comes - to advance in the decolonizing paradigm that we owe ourselves in the Andes and throughout the Abya Yala.

“To keep on walking” is a road map in which the empirical work –of eloquent and effective co-participation– flows with a mark of denunciation in a humanistic textuality that guides us and summons us to think our episteme from our own worldview, but with intercultural vocation.

A clear message of persistence (and not of resistance) that embodies in action the precise and precious postulate of Paulo Freire: “We all know something. We all ignore something. That's why we always learn. No one educates anybody, no one educates himself, men educate each other, mediated by the world. ”

An essential resource for reflection and analysis in the initial formation and in service of the teaching community of the Andean countries.

Reading is a flame

Marleny Olivera, coordinator of our libraries in the San Ignacio area, wrote to us recently telling of the enthusiasm generated by the rural library in the community of Potrero Grande: “The attention given to the books has opened space to get closer and learn better!”

What a pleasant example!

Here are the photos that she sent us from Professor Diómedes Camacho, librarian:

GEPA II

The Andean Prehistory Studies Group - entity of our Network - begins a new stage.

At the beginning of the new century, GEPA assumed the task of studying and reflecting in depth about the roots of our culture and consolidating various investigations around rock art.

This time it goes for more, including diverse avenues for the understanding of the community path that as a people we have inherited.

The call is open.

The necessary task

The digital edition Nº 1459 of El Orejiverde - The newspaper of the indigenous peoples, published in Argentina, carries an excellent article by our friend Daniel Canosa.

The article is related to a note of ours "where I understood - Daniel tells us - that could link an ancient task performed in the Qomllalaqpi experience".

Here we share the link:

http://www.elorejiverde.com/buen-vivir/5005-la-necesaria-tarea-de-recolectar-tradiciones-orales

Sayings and Writings

Our Network starts an editorial series - in digital version - with articles, interviews and conferences by our brother Alfredo Mires, addressing various issues and reflections related to our organization.

Sayings and Writings begins with the edition of "To keep walking".

And we keep walking!

The power of will

A few months ago, our brother Jesús Oswaldo Quispe called us to ask if we could put a rural library in a distant community located in the central jungle of Huánuco ...

We couldn’t get over our surprise: it would be a bit difficult to attend to it, we told ourselves, being so far away and with the more than five hundred libraries that we must attend to here in Cajamarca ...

How was it that someone of such remoteness had come to know of our humble proposal and way? While he was being treated with chemotherapy in Lima, Jesús Oswaldo had been telling of our Rural Libraries to the other patients, encouraging them, cheering them on.

And this fellow does not stop: just returning from his therapy he was already crossing the Silaco River, tributary of the great Marañón River, loaded with books and those hopes that are certainties.

Seventeen more libraries have formed and continue to grow, spurring and animating, collecting the stories of the old men and teaching children to read.

Commitment and volunteering are more than mere words: it is not difficult to endure the madness of witnessing the generous life that we have inherited from our grandparents.

That is our pride: learn to keep going.

Congratulations! And thanks, Jesús Oswaldo.