On a gray, cold and at times rainy Saturday noon, the Liberté community gathered around a table once again. At the Punto de Paz Hall, everyone shared a spaghetti lunch with sauce and chicken.
Time had passed since the last community lunch. The gap was broken by what best defines Liberté: solidarity among peers. A pack of pasta from one person, a ready-made sauce from another, and together the meal, the reunion, came together.
Liberté is a space self-managed by people in a situation of imprisonment inside Penal Unit No.15 of Batán. It is sustained by its own members, without belonging to the State or the Penitentiary Service. It also has a significant network of collaborators: judges, prosecutors, lawyers, social workers, psychologists, non-governmental organizations such as Víctimas por la Paz, and national and international supporters.
Voices from the table
The lunch was really good, some great spaghetti shared with the guys, delicious. Hopefully it happens every weekend.
Carlitos L. expressed his emotion, saying how good it is because it brings us together. He said it's good that it happens, and noted that it had been almost a year since the last lunch.
I thought it was a great idea, and that's what Liberté is about: a community, a family, always building proposals together. A really lovely experience.
It has to happen again, it was a spectacle, a really good lunch. Filling your belly and enjoying it among companions. It has to happen again.
Used to bringing people together
Empathy, solidarity, unity, shared emotions. All of it was present at this community lunch, in a Liberté that is used to bringing people together, used to giving back dignity.
