Apadrinaunolivo

Apadrinaunolivo project was born in 2014, due to the inconformity of seeing how a village in Teruel called Oliete was in the way to disappear because of the devastating consequences of the rural exodus, which in turn had causing the abandon of 100.000 centenary olive trees. We decided to create an innovative model inside the rural area, our main objective was to generate sustainable rural economies, to achieve this proposal we decided to arouse and involve the society and companies into the transformation of one of the big challenges of the 21st century: the abandon of the rural areas.
We live in a reality where the rural economies have stopped being competitive and it leads today to thousands of villages to the disappearance.
In the last years more than 1.000 rural populations have disappeared in Spain, with devastating consequences. And from 8.000 municipalities that exist in Spain, 50% does not come to 500 inhabitants.
We empower the inhabitants of rural populations in order that they act and think differently, achieving the creation of rural sustainable economies, with social incorporation that avoids his own disappearance.
We link people and companies thought the adoption of centenary abandoned olive trees generating an emotional link between them and their olive tree, where for 50 Euros a year, the sponsors are responsible for initiating the recovery of the tree in a supportive way.
The involved ones in the project initiate the experience choosing the olive tree that they want to recover. They can follow-up on their tree through our mobile application " My Olive tree ". And also they will have the opportunity to meet their olive tree in one of our visits of supporters to the Oive grove. We hope this will also stimulate economically the village.
At the end of the year, they will receive 2 litres of the oil that has been obtained from the recovered olive trees. Over time the crop will be financially sustainable by selling its fruit under a brand of responsible consumption.
Our impact
●Recovery of the olive grove, nowadays - 8000 olive trees.
●Supporters involved in the project, nowadays - 4.000
●3.000 annual visitors to Oliete
●Media impacts, nowadays - More than 4.000 monthly visitors throught our website.
●Sale of oil bottles nowadays – 20.000 bottles
●Villages where Apadrinaunolivo.org works nowadays – Oliete and Alacón