Saturday, 2 January 2021
More BRIE
We receive calls and requests from teachers interested in having a Rural Library in their Educational Institutions.
It encourages us that this new year - despite the pressures we have due to the pandemic - readings, books and our libraries, can continue to be drops that pierce the rock of education in our communities.
Following the footsteps of Mara
I met Mara long before I saw her on the day she was born. Her arrival was a great joy for the entire family of the Network. From then on we knew that she would be a happy, supportive, responsible and very charming girl.
Thus, we have seen her grow, participate and dance, study and dance, read a lot and dance ...
She has practiced ballet since she was very little and we have always loved seeing her airs, her steps, her elegance.
For some months now, Mara has been studying to be a teacher of children and we are very excited to see how much our country's education gains with her, because we know her and we know that her future students will have a great example to follow: a teacher who reads and gives her opinion; but who also dances, finding rhythm and keeping up with her life.
And now, we are even more proud of her because Mara has just achieved one of her great dreams: to study dance at the emblematic University of Antioquia, in Colombia. To there her steps have reached!
We are sure that, wherever she goes, her steps will always be an example to follow.
As family of the Rural Libraries Network, although separated by the pandemic, we come together to celebrate this victory. To Mara, our pride, affection and great wishes for success, in her decisions today and forever.
Lola Paredes
Congratulations to Mara, our volunteer!
She chose to be a teacher and entered the Higher Public Pedagogical Institute “Hno. Victorino Elorz Goicoechea”, in Cajamarca, where she is already finishing her first cycle in the specialty of Primary Education. And today, once again, she fills us with pride for the fact that she entered the University of Antioquia, where she will study to be a teacher in the specialty of Dance.
Congratulations, Marita, we know of your dedication and effort; you will be a great teacher!
Karina Chacon
In FIL Huancayo 2020
The Huancayo International Book Fair (FIL) 2020, given the global health emergency situation, had a virtual edition.
Our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz, General Coordinator of the Network, was invited on 26th November to participate in the Conversation “Territories of reflection: rescue of oral memory within the framework of the Rural Libraries Network of Cajamarca”.
The event was coordinated by Medali Mejía and the dialogue held with Elías Rengifo, a research professor at UNMSM.
The discussion dealt with issues related to the Rural Libraries Network, its beginnings, stages and representative projects, as well as issues related to Andean culture; health and education; narrative and poetry; post-pandemic work, etc.
Alfredo pointed out, for example: “When we start by reading our books, it is not that we gain a habit: it is that we lose a fear. And we discover the dignity that dwells in those pages, the certification of the worth of my own memory, of our memory ... "
The full discussion can be seen at:
https://www.facebook.com/filhuancayo/videos/959026734505517/
Burning in Qayaqpuma
How it hurts to arrive at the sacred mountain, to offer and greet it, and to see that some obtuse have set fire to its wonderful natural gardens of blessed herbs and healing shrubs.
The rains have already begun healing her wounds and the sprouts return, miraculous and giving, to continue illuminating hope.
I wish that rain could also cleanse the hearts of ignorance and the infamous ribs of predators.
Friday, 1 January 2021
Orality and the wealth of knowledge
From CERLAC (Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean) and the Ministry of Education of Colombia, they extended an invitation to our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz to participate in a discussion about the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca, the Campesino Encyclopedia and orality.
In the Library Network - Alfredo explained - we are a community, we are what we are and we are what we want to be as a people and as a culture. The Network is also a space, a sense of encounter to seek and recover the values that have kept us united in a respectful and harmonious relationship with nature. He also spoke of the principle of community, of the ayllu that encourages and animates us.
Regarding orality, he indicated that, in its broadest sense, it traces the mere diction of words. Orality is the source and writing is the gait or crutches to walk. Orality for us is ferment, it is dignity; It is the perennial memory, and remembering is honoring and awakening. Orality, then, is a vital issue, it is the heart of our organization. "It is not a question of freezing knowledge or museumizing knowledge or fossilizing culture." Yet, it is necessary to preserve the farm, agriculture and the living relationship with the land.
As for the Campesino Encyclopedia, he explained that this is an effort to collect our words and therefore it is part of this structure. It is not a strategy or a goal, since the Encyclopedia is inherent in the life and actions of the Network.
It is therefore necessary to appropriate the reasons that have made this culture possible, to transmit the essence, the cause.
Regarding the role of libraries in relation to orality, he indicated that they should not be set against orality but come from orality, or with orality. They are not an external element, but for discovering ourselves in this wisdom of our peoples, we have to discover or unearth the wealth that is there, if necessary.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGUpQsU-dFI
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