4.5 Eliminate all discrimination in education.
4.6 Universal literacy and numeracy.
4.7 Education for sustainable development and global citizenship.
The Rural Library Network continues to update and reprint its 20-volume Enciclopedia Campesina. The collection, which gathers stories and knowledge from across the mountainous region surrounding the town of Cajamarca, is the cornerstone of the network’s literacy program.
Rural librarians in nearly 400 remote communities keep the books in their homes both to lend to community members and to use to lead reading circles. The network also distributes to a growing number of school libraries. Librarians in the network encourage young readers to read aloud to elders, who are often illiterate, and elders are invited to share their wisdom with children and youth at the different schools and libraries where the Rural Library Network is active.
The revised edition includes new stories and knowledge drawn from communities that have joined the network since the last edition was published. This project will finance the production of volumes 10 through 13. Five hundred copies of each title will then be printed and distributed.
