El Cauce|Camphill Escobar is Argentina's first inclusive community initiative, providing an integrated residential village, biodynamic farm and artisan work opportunities to address two important challenges: the inclusion of adults with disabilities and the urgent need to regenerate fertile soils. At El Cauce, adults with disabilities can live with supported independence and develop autonomy and skills to achieve a nourishing life with purpose, friendship and community.
Our project responds to two important challenges: inclusion for adults with disabilities, and the urgent need to regenerate fertile soil. Adults with disabilities in Argentina have no viable vision of an independent future, which negatively impacts their health and wellbeing. On a global scale, some 24% of the world's productive lands are degraded. The biggest challenge to agriculture today is regenerating fertile soil, our most significant non-renewable geo-resource.
This project addresses both issues simultaneously by establishing a community that employs biodynamic farming techniques to both nourish the earth AND provide a rhythmic, productive context that is therapeutic by nature. El Cauce offers adults with disabilities the chance to pursue their own life project, live with dignity and purpose and participate actively in their community while supporting regenerative agriculture in a sustainable, residential setting.
El Cauce changes lives and influences how society perceives people with intellectual disabilities. Some 150 people will call El Cauce home and live with autonomy as part of a vibrant community, nourishing themselves and the land, participating in daily life, and demonstrating that when rhythms are adjusted on a community level, limitations become less evident, even insignificant. El Cauce inspires and educates, and is establishing a replicable model that will expand throughout the region.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
