She chose to be a teacher and entered the Higher Public Pedagogical Institute “Hno. Victorino Elorz Goicoechea”, in Cajamarca, where she is already finishing her first cycle in the specialty of Primary Education. And today, once again, she fills us with pride for the fact that she entered the University of Antioquia, where she will study to be a teacher in the specialty of Dance.
Congratulations, Marita, we know of your dedication and effort; you will be a great teacher!
Karina Chacon
The Huancayo International Book Fair (FIL) 2020, given the global health emergency situation, had a virtual edition.
Our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz, General Coordinator of the Network, was invited on 26th November to participate in the Conversation “Territories of reflection: rescue of oral memory within the framework of the Rural Libraries Network of Cajamarca”.
The event was coordinated by Medali Mejía and the dialogue held with Elías Rengifo, a research professor at UNMSM.
The discussion dealt with issues related to the Rural Libraries Network, its beginnings, stages and representative projects, as well as issues related to Andean culture; health and education; narrative and poetry; post-pandemic work, etc.
Alfredo pointed out, for example: “When we start by reading our books, it is not that we gain a habit: it is that we lose a fear. And we discover the dignity that dwells in those pages, the certification of the worth of my own memory, of our memory ... "
The full discussion can be seen at:
https://www.facebook.com/filhuancayo/videos/959026734505517/
How it hurts to arrive at the sacred mountain, to offer and greet it, and to see that some obtuse have set fire to its wonderful natural gardens of blessed herbs and healing shrubs.
The rains have already begun healing her wounds and the sprouts return, miraculous and giving, to continue illuminating hope.
I wish that rain could also cleanse the hearts of ignorance and the infamous ribs of predators.
From CERLAC (Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean) and the Ministry of Education of Colombia, they extended an invitation to our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz to participate in a discussion about the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca, the Campesino Encyclopedia and orality.
In the Library Network - Alfredo explained - we are a community, we are what we are and we are what we want to be as a people and as a culture. The Network is also a space, a sense of encounter to seek and recover the values that have kept us united in a respectful and harmonious relationship with nature. He also spoke of the principle of community, of the ayllu that encourages and animates us.
Regarding orality, he indicated that, in its broadest sense, it traces the mere diction of words. Orality is the source and writing is the gait or crutches to walk. Orality for us is ferment, it is dignity; It is the perennial memory, and remembering is honoring and awakening. Orality, then, is a vital issue, it is the heart of our organization. "It is not a question of freezing knowledge or museumizing knowledge or fossilizing culture." Yet, it is necessary to preserve the farm, agriculture and the living relationship with the land.
As for the Campesino Encyclopedia, he explained that this is an effort to collect our words and therefore it is part of this structure. It is not a strategy or a goal, since the Encyclopedia is inherent in the life and actions of the Network.
It is therefore necessary to appropriate the reasons that have made this culture possible, to transmit the essence, the cause.
Regarding the role of libraries in relation to orality, he indicated that they should not be set against orality but come from orality, or with orality. They are not an external element, but for discovering ourselves in this wisdom of our peoples, we have to discover or unearth the wealth that is there, if necessary.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGUpQsU-dFI
Doña Ángela Burga says: "For us it means a lot to have a library at home because in the place where we live there is no library, neither in the institutions, and also now we can take advantage of the time to read at home since we learn a lot from books."
Fiorela Chávez Vásquez tells us that: “Because of this pandemic, books would help me entertain myself a bit and I would also like to read with my family. We are four members of my family, we always read in the afternoon when we are all together. We read in turns. I really like to read, I know some books from the Library Network, but I like to read all the books. I like to read 'Los Ojos de Gabi', because it is a very beautiful story.”
Nanci Huamán Campos: “Rural Libraries books serve us because they are about our things, our own life, our own reality. It is easier to explain to our children; sometimes with other books they are on other subjects, more about the city, more about other places. That is why it would be very useful to have books, books of variety, stories, everything that is traditions, dictionaries, works; then it does serve us very much.”
Even in times of pandemic the desire to read the books of our land does not cease. We are very pleased with the start of another Rural Library in the Educational Institution of the district of San Bernandino, province of San Pablo.
We welcome and congratulate teacher Flor Soledad Mendoza for her encouragement and commitment in managing her library. To all the teachers and their principal, students and parents, a fraternal hug from our family of the Rural Libraries Network of Cajamarca.
The unpresentable do not represent us.
As Peruvians we are outraged, and it is also our responsibility to promote a political culture of citizenship, to fight against endemic evils such as corruption and the destruction of our spirit and our land.
