Because together we are stronger

Filled with joy and full of illusions, on Thursday 27 June, we waited for our brothers and sisters who were arriving, one by one, from the different library communities; some had travelled for two or three days, and many of them had made the journey on foot. We gathered to celebrate our General Assembly, the first of the year 2024.

The Assembly, for us, has many meanings, starting with the meeting to strengthen our ties as a librarian family: a time to share, to continue learning and unlearning, to reflect on what we have done and to set ourselves new challenges, an opportunity to recharge our batteries and keep moving forward.

And in this Assembly, apart from showing our gratitude with the all'pata paguikun, rescuing the wisdom of our elders, celebrating the feast of the exchange for the implementation of our libraries with new books; we paused to review the conception of the Rural Libraries Network. With the support of our compas Javier Naranjo, Orlanda Agudelo, Nathalia Quintero, Sara Moreno and the valuable contributions of each of the coordinators, who spoke to us about the content of some of our books, enriching the presentations and discussions. 

And, to receive the energy of our dear land, we closed the Assembly by visiting Apu Qayaqpuma, a sacred mountain, from which our brother Alfredo Mires left us four great books in which he recorded the rock art of our ancestors.

Because together we are stronger; we are sure that dear mother earth, our apus and our deceased will do everything possible for us to continue meeting again, to continue coming together in the next assembly.