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Alfa and Beto carried a travelling library
In the late 1990s, Colombian teacher Luis Soriano began visiting rural communities with a library of seventy books. Two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, carried them. A request for a writer’s book was discussed on the radio, bringing a wave of donations.
Instead of readers travelling to a library, the books came by donkey.
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