EcoSwell - Green Lobitos Project

@EcoSwell is a sustainable development, for-impact organization based in Lobitos, Peru. Since 2014, our team has been dedicated to ensuring people and nature can thrive in unison in the coastal environment of north Peru. We’re still learning the ins-and-outs of the SteemIt community, but we’re very excited to join in and start sharing our content! Learn more about our organization and our efforts by visiting our Facebook and website.

Here is Petronila, a Lobitos local, watering her Neem plant. EcoSwell gave her family this baby tree in May of 2016, as a part of our initiative called Lobitos Verde. This project aims to promote more green spaces around the community. Photo taken by EcoSwell staff.

Lobitos Verde is just one aspect of our efforts as a for impact organization. Through reforestation and the planting of trees, we hope to prevent global desertification. The Peruvian-Tumbesian dry forest offers so much natural beauty, and we at EcoSwell are working to preserve this special ecosystem! We mainly work with native species of trees for this, but we also mix with other non-native species that are not invasive and that have beneficial value to the families, like the health benefits of Neem trees, in order to motivate them more in the project. You can learn more about Neem benefits here: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/herbs-and-spices/neem.html

We’ve heard a lot about the #SteemForest movement, started on SteemIt by our good friend @IntrepidSurfer. EcoSwell wholeheartedly supports this movement and we hope that all the great planting continues. Since we’ve begun Lobitos Verde, EcoSwell has planted over 400 trees in the Lobitos community! We distribute these trees to local families, in order to increase our engagement with the community. We want to ensure that we’re working hand-in-hand with the people of Lobitos for common good.

Throughout the next few days, we’ll be posting a series of photos from Lobitos life. After we familiarize ourselves with the SteemIt community a little more, we’ll be releasing a proper ‘Introduce Yourself’ post. Stay tuned!