It is not easy to keep up the energy needed for community organisation, the commitment to alternative models of education, the conviction that government should be committed to justice and solidarity among nations. But the nations themselves, the men and women who have a gut feeling that a better world is possible, are capable of heroic efforts, whether small or great, just to sustain a dream.

Yes, we believe that daily care and maintenance of the environment, of the nature around us, is a contribution to a better world.

Yes, we can see that relating to one another on an equal footing, believing in the equality of the sexes, rather than in a pecking order imposed from above, can give us a different world.

Yes, the diverse cultures and educational experiments of different parts of the world can come together and exchange knowledge, confirming that being human is something complementary, not individualistic.

Yes, we can educate ourselves to participate and be co-responsible in a new society.

An exchange of knowledge like the one we experienced in Asturias (Spain) at the end of September, confirmed for us that systemising experiences and social practices is a constructive process, involving dialogue. As persons and as social organisations, we need to stop from time to time and listen to one another, acknowledge one another, compare our experiences with those of other places and contexts; to make our own the intentions and interests that help us to return to our origins and show us what it means to live beyond being preoccupied with success or failure.

We were given four days in which to find a different ending to stories conditioned by certain limitations, but whose situation also provided opportunities. Yes, systemising, as a basic part of our social method, helps us to build understanding and give explanations. It allows us and those with whom we are involved to know one another better, and to recognise one another as we try to re-create our humanity.Yes, systemising, as a basic part of our social method, helps us to build understanding and give explanations. It allows us and those with whom we are involved to know one another better, and to recognise one another as we try to re-create our humanity.

For this reason the exchange of knowledge proposed by ACSUR (http://www.acsur.org/) will always be opportune, not only there and at home, but wherever people are seeking to improve their actions in view of a better world. In Asturias we were surprised to see how our local action reaches other places and little by little brings about social and global transformation, beginning with each one of us who were present there.