Triathlon for the Network

For many years, Rural Libraries has had friends in England, grouped in the association, Sarah's Rural Library Fund, who do many things to support us financially: they organize concerts, go on walks, do activities in schools around storytelling and readings, keep their social networks active and bake cakes to raise funds for our rural libraries in the rural communities of Cajamarca.

Sarah Heery, who gave the name to this foundation, was an English librarian who left us this legacy. She visited us in the 1990s and was impressed by the work we do at Bibliotecas. When Sarah passed away we learned that she had left part of her legacy to us, and so this beautiful fraternal contact was born.

Sarah's Rural Library Fund involves Sarah's entire family: her mother, siblings, nieces, nephews, brothers-in-law and friends. In April, one of the nephews, Rob Porteous, participated in a triathlon and won a prize that is very meaningful to us. From here we have been attentive to Rob's participation, we have received photos, news and we are very grateful for his commitment, his effort, his valuable and supportive gesture.

In one of the photos we see Rob with his family at the end of the race. That photo moved us very much: to see them together, making an effort, so that here, in the distant villages of the Andes of Cajamarca, children, young people and adults from rural areas can have access to books, training and information. It is a very noble gesture.

Thank you for that, truly, from the bottom of our hearts.