Giving is more than receiving

Thanks to the solidarity and generosity of charitable people.

A few weeks ago, the volunteers of the Network were called upon to receive, select and process new reading material that we received as donations.

We started by opening boxes and browsing through every book, text, writing or sentence that came into our hands.

Thinking of every fellow librarian in the most hidden communities, we were ready to choose, stamp and register the material that could be useful to our brothers and sisters.

Always thinking that the books we would make available to our friends and companions would be those that would carry with them hope, knowledge and information that would contribute to the life of each reader. That would help them to continue dreaming and working for a more just world and to gain knowledge of situations and spaces far from their own. In other words, reading and information that would instruct us but not uproot us, that would fill us without emptying us, that would nourish us without robbing us.

A beautiful experience, also loaded with a lot of responsibility.

Thank you, family of the Rural Library Network of Cajamarca.