rede dlbc

A Chamar o Futuro Project

The second moment to invite socially challenged territories to participate in collaborative societal transformation opened with the grant offered by Rede DLBC for a period of 3 years – 2021 until 2023. This was a wonderful possibility to continue hosting open community moments in these neighborhoods, as well as two further collaborative leadership laboratories and many other transformative journeys.

In the context of the pandemic (which attacked the lungs) Monsanto, Lisbon’s green lung, may become the symbol for urban resilience. This project aims to increase the resilience and well being of the local communities in the crown of Monsanto, to reestablish an interdependent relationship within the communities and with the ecosystem of the forest. Making accessible the mountain’s available endogenous and renewable resources will contribute to shifting the mindsets from scarcity to an abundant and prosperous local economy.

In this project addressed the topic of the future of food and water in the context of community resilience and worked with the neighbourhoods of 2 de Maio, Casalinho da Ajuda and Sete Moinhos.

The six activities that manifested between the beginning of 2021 and the end of 2023:

This project will build bridges with other ongoing projects (local and international) to create the fertile ground for synergy.

The cooperative is a non-profit legal entity and the business model associated with the project described above is a local social grant funding. If you would like to join the cooperative’s activities, please contact us.