EcoIsleta Coliving Community in Las Palmas was founded by a family from Gran Canaria, Rita, Jonatan, daughter Mia, and son Liam. We are from and live in the La Isleta neighborhood.
Our Community commitment to the neighborhood started in 2008, when we launched a blog called ConoceLaIsleta about the history and present of La Isleta.
Since that moment, we have been participating in various organizations, activities, and associations with diverse purposes, but always in La Isleta.
Organic Shop
After years of activism, in 2014, in the middle of the crisis, we opened an organic shop 100 mt from our EcoIsleta Coliving.
At that point, we already knew that we had to focus on the future of our neighborhood, and we had to focus on the sustainability of La Isleta.
EcoIsleta Coliving Community in Las Palmas
One year after opening the shop, still in the middle of an economic crisis, we bought an old house that we saw when taking a box of fruit to a neighbor’s house.
We had been working for the protection of our traditional houses for years.
The goal was to renovate the house in 6 months, but we worked for 3 years on the renovation.
We ran out of money twice, and because we wanted to keep many old parts of the house, problems appeared every second…
We did the job ourselves, we built furniture and worked in welding, electricity, plumbing, painting, and design.
Everything in the house was built by hand, except mattresses, home appliances, and chairs.
We want people to understand the importance of Las Palmas Port’s old workers’ houses because these houses talk about our community, solidarity, and overcoming adversities, in a time when people help each other.
Purpose
The purpose behind the shop and the Coliving is to help the neighborhood face the new era.
The shop works in the field of the local economy, eating without destroying our countryside.
Our Coliving wants to be a place to connect the knowledge of the remote workers with the problems of our economy and society, also an example of a Zero Waste house…
Our purpose is to build a community of people who help each other to transform our neighborhood into a sustainable place.
