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Recovering, restoring and conserving the San Salvador volcano through ISKALI, is one of the largest initiatives that La Constancia started in 2021, due to its importance as a water recharge area and as a natural area with various natural benefits such as carbon sequestration, and biodiversity protection, among others. This year, solid allies in their environmental commitments are joining forces to add actions to this national project.
The Banco Davivienda together with the Fideicomiso Walter Soundy and Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI) will join forces with La Constancia to conserve more than 332 hectares of the protected natural area through the ISKALI initiative in order to promote sustainable agriculture, soil protection, biodiversity care and increased water infiltration to this area that is part of the main water recharge area of the AMSS.
“In La Constancia we set ambitious goals for sustainability, being ISKALI an impact initiative with which we want to recover our ecosystem with better soil conservation practices, sustainable agriculture and actions for the recovery of natural spaces. We also believe that if we join together we can achieve more impact. For this reason, we are pleased that Davivienda, the Fideicomiso Walter Soundy and CMI have joined us in supporting this project, with the same vision of helping to protect these spaces. We will continue to promote this type of actions to leave a better world for new generations”, said Javier Benavides, Sustainability and Reputation Manager of La Constancia.
“As Davivienda El Salvador and representative of the Fideicomiso Walter Soundy, we understand the value of sustainability when it is managed in an integrated and collaborative way. We are proud to be part of the ISKALI project, to achieve together greater impacts on the conservation of our environment and in a special way, the volcano of San Salvador, executing concrete measures. The world is our home, let’s make it more prosperous, inclusive and green”, said Jorge Barrientos Laucel, financial director of Davivienda El Salvador and trustee of the Fideicomiso Walter Soundy.
Maira Serrano, Regional Manager of Environmental Management at CMI Alimentos, said that “at CMI we have a business sustainability strategy. Inspired by our corporate purpose of generating, with family warmth, opportunities that change lives, with the participation in the Fideicomiso W. Soundy we demonstrate our commitment to compliance with environmental standards, convinced that, with these actions, we promote sustainable development with a positive impact on people, families and communities”.
These 332 hectares are added to those already executed previously, in these 3 years, to complete more than 900 hectares recovered and conserved by the Iskali project since the beginning of the year 2021, to which have also been adding benefits for farmers in the area, temporary indirect jobs and other environmental impacts, such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection.
In this way, from different sectors together we are building a significant contribution to the environment, biodiversity and water resources in El Salvador.
