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Ayoka has just returned from La Gloria, Colombia where we had an amazing experience following Luis and his donkey Alfa for a few days. Luis is an extraordinary man, waking at 5 am every week-end to bring some joy to the kids who wait for him impatiently. Whether in a farm surrounded by pigs and chickens or under a beautiful tree in the middle nowhere, Luis sets up his improvised library and lets young and old alike dream through the tales he tells before allowing each one to borrow a book of their choice.
Every week-end, as he has done for the past 10 years, Luis Soriano, of La Gloria, Colombia, gathers his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, and loads them with an eclectic cargo of books destined to people living in small village beyond. He created the "Biblioburro" in the belief that the act of taking books to people who do not have them can somehow improve this impoverished region.
