A non-profit in formation, rooted in the south.
The Centro de Resiliencia Austral (Southern Resilience Centre) is a non-profit organisation in formation, based in Pucón. We work to strengthen the resilience of southern Chile’s communities —in Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos— in the face of a changing world: more fragile supply chains, pressure on the natural systems everything depends on, and the need to build lasting local capacity.
Our guiding stars
Because communities thrive when they tend what they depend on: soil, water, forest and one another.
The knowledge is already in the territory. Our work is to help it grow, not to bring it from outside.
Let investment return to the community instead of leaving, and let those who live here keep control.
Not money alone: soil, time, trust, know-how. A healthy community is measured in all its wealth.
How we work
Two modes of work that reinforce each other.
Labs, where we work with research and innovation on concrete problems and opportunities; and projects, high-impact initiatives we are fully committed to and actively engaged in, building resilience in the region.
Our labs
These are concrete problems —and opportunities— we’re working on for the south’s resilience.
The south relies on firewood for heat, but it produces a lot of smoke that harms our health. This lab works on new ways of cleaner, more efficient combustion — less smoke, less wood, and more usable heat for the region’s households.
How can we economically increase local production from regional waste streams, strengthening the south’s agricultural fuel and fertiliser sovereignty and reducing dependence on distant supply chains?
Create legal and financial models empowering people in the region to invest in resilience initiatives that benefit them and their communities directly. Leveraging international investment with local communities in control.
Who we are
With roots in the south and experience building organisations inside and outside Chile.
Serial founder; has worked with the President of the Maa Council of Elders in Kenya on community resilience since 2019.
Co-founder and CEO of Sceneverse. President of Everus Communications (rural internet in Ontario, acquired by Xplornet in 2010). Strategic Advisor to ReThinking Capital. Global Network Lead at Open Source Medical Supplies during the pandemic.
Commercial Engineer, based in Pucón for 12 years.
Over 20 years leading marketing, commercial expansion, strategic positioning and brand development in retail, outdoor and sustainable real estate across Chile and Latin America.
Advisors
Our first project
The Centre’s first initiative: a network that recognises, connects and grows those already working for the south’s resilience.