Piscobamba River Watershed Sovereign Bio Region project
Vilcabamba is a valley full of magical spots and with a tradition of longevity among its people. Now it's a hub for expats looking for a community off the matrix. Original inhabitants have a strong cultural pull towards natural farming and respecting the environment.
The objective of the Piscobamba River Watershed Bio Region project is to create a regenerative and sovereign watershed in the Vilcabamba area, revitalizing the economy and making it self sufficient.
How? Through entrepreneurship, innovation, use of holistic/organic farming practices, a seed bank, recycling program, with integrative physical and mental health options, conservation of rainwater, treatment of sewage water, construction with natural materials, microcredit, local token, community tourism and generation of energy.
These are the first projects already working:
Kuntur Wachana mountain reforestation
This project has been responsible for the planting of more than 20,000 trees in a fornerly eroded, deforested mountains where more than once there have been fires.
This initiative creates jobs for young people in Tumianuma while they recover their ancestraal love to Nature. https://arbol-conrazon.ch
Tumianuma Gardens Women's project
The intention is to empower women in Tumianuma by offering training and financing to create food gardens and to make secondary products that raise confidence for self sufficiency and improve standard of living.
The program has been active since 2020 and has the enthusiastic participation of two Women's groups.
Agua Ayni Water conservation project
This project intends to return water to the land. Ayni is the kichwa word for "Reciprocity." Western civilization has constantly extracted water from the underground, which has led to droughts, floods, fires and landslides.
Using permacultural techonoloy, Agua Ayni aims to restore the Water Cycle.
Types of projects we support
Invigorating local economy
This includes community agroecological gardens, providing living soil technologies to local farmers, entrepreneurship coaching, community-managed tourism and the creation of a local token.
Human well being
There exists the technology to keep people out of scarcity. We want to create a holistic physical / mental health dispensary, nutrition + cooking classes, and art therapy for teens and kids.
Sustainable living
Treat sewage water, make water retention wells, construction with adobe using peak technologies, hydropower, private internet service, integral recycling program and seed bank.