The year 2024 was a year with no rain. As a consequence there were many forest fires affecting our flora, wildlife, domestic grazing animals and also the fields of our farming brothers and sisters.
Normally we were used to the first rains arriving in the month of October, to sow the corn, but the summer continued. The first days of December the first dark grey clouds appeared, signalling the arrival of rain, so longed for by all of us, generating hope for our crops and animals.
In the middle of December the first rains began to fall, which was an immense joy for all of us, since rain means LIFE for us; rain is a time when there is production of all our crops, the pastures for the animals grow and we are no longer carrying water from far away places for the consumption of us and our animals.
In honour and gratitude to the gods for giving us the agüita, community men and women from the various communities, readers of rural libraries, we make our little offering to our mother earth, as the source of life that feeds and shelters us, to our sacred mountains, the apus, for keeping the agüita in their womb for times of drought and in memory of our deceased for their honour, passion, strength, wisdom and their mystical spiritual faith with mother nature.
Now it is time to sow seeds, words and knowledge by reading our books after a little offering to the Pachamama.
Javier Huaman Lara
General Coordinator
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