Visiting is living together

These rain-free months are filled with field trips for Network members.

When we visit our coordinators and the children of the Community Program in their communities and their homes in the countryside, people think that we are going to help these children and their families. In other words, according to the logic of the support programs, they are the “beneficiaries”.

I think it is the other way around. I think and feel that we are the ones who receive the most. We receive the hugs and smiles of the children, the gratitude and affection of the parents, the tasty and healthy lunches, the joy of learning to harvest peas or feed a cow. And we learn from the Andean cosmovision -or cosmovivencia-, in a holistic way, the respect for the water and the land.

Our gratitude will always be immense. And our reciprocity will always remain small.

Thanks to everyone and everything. From the bottom of my heart.

Rita Mocker