We are born stripped, with a lot of innocence and capacity for wonder. Then the concrete is imposed on us and little by little we lose ourselves... a long time passes before we realise this fact.
However, sometimes life interweaves itself so that we find the right people and the right spaces. For this to happen there is an important step to take: "learning about will and gratitude for life". From here we can say that, along the way, we have found dear friends and allies.
I am a member of a cultural association called APU. This is a group of people committed to the management and promotion of culture through community life. On one of the roads we have travelled since our beginning, we met the family of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca. This wonderful encounter and the bond we have created is due to our common visions: our will to work in community and our gratitude to our land, our roots and our culture.
This journey also led us to meet Alfredo Mires Ortiz, with whom we had the opportunity to share spaces, conversations and new ways of seeing the world.
From these ways and longings, paths were born, ideals were born, dreams were born and, in the end, a new commitment arose: to join in the efforts to, together, see the world dreamed of by the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca and, with it, a deep affection for the librarians, the community members, the minga (community work), the Apus (sacred mountains), the Ayllu (family) and all the living people who give impetus and breath to this path that brings us together.
Mauricio Pérez
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