The festival in favour of ikastolas was held for the first time in 1984. Preparatory meetings were also held at the home of Hirigoien in Larresoro. He came up with his name, Herri Urrats, but then he was called Herri Urrats. The money raised in the first edition of the Feria de Colectividades Vascas allowed the construction of the Kanbo College.

The first ikastola of Lapurdi was founded in 1969 in the Guipuzkoan town of Arrangoitze. Since then, fifteen years later, in 1983 there were 23 ikastolas in Ipar Euskal Herria and 700 children who were studying in them, all of them from primary school, belonged to G.M. As Zubiarrain told in the report published in May 2015 in the journal Gaur8. "It was, therefore, an imperative need to start Secondary Education, as Hirigoyen tells us, that students continue their SEASKA studies until they were 16 years old." Larresoroarra recalled that his parents were 'alone', referring to the lack of support from the institutions of the moment. The mind has a long leg, but the power has a short arm. "We weren't many, we were about twenty. Some people thought it wasn't possible, they were afraid. As in all the beginnings, the first challenge was to dispel doubts or struggle. We had a great belief, because the situation of the ikastolas also led them to it.