Reading to heal

From the Network of Rural Libraries we try to promote reading in all possible places and circumstances: under a tree, before going to sleep, while we are queuing in some institution, when we wait for the bus to leave or to put the children to bed...

For this reason, one of the challenges of the Network is to donate books for these purposes, in coordination with those responsible for the different spaces. So it was that, a few months ago, the Network donated a set of our story fascicles to the Oncology Procedure Room at the Cajamarcan hospital.

Those who go through there are in very challenging times, and that is why it means so much to see patients reading our books, made with the prodigious humility of the Cajamarcan countryside.

And it has been more than beautiful to witness one of the nurses in charge of the area, book in hand, reading our stories aloud, for everyone. And she read very well, with intonation and emphasis, as if to help patients get better!

We do believe that reading can also heal us and keep us fighting for life.