Our Purpose
We aspire to create vibrant rural regions with thriving villages where people live with dignity.
These areas should offer job opportunities, accessible healthcare, education, transportation, and a safe, sustainable environment. Our goal is to revitalize and repopulate these regions, ensuring their long-term prosperity while addressing the challenges of rural-urban migration.
Our Purpose
We aspire to create vibrant rural regions with thriving villages where people live with dignity.
These areas should offer job opportunities, accessible healthcare, education, transportation, and a safe, sustainable environment. Our goal is to revitalize and repopulate these regions, ensuring their long-term prosperity while addressing the challenges of rural-urban migration.
What we do
Adding Value to Communities Facing Depopulation
Communities in decline struggle to retain residents or attract new ones, limiting local business growth and property values.
However, every rural area holds countless opportunities for growth and revitalization. This is where the ES VICIS Foundation plays a pivotal role.
Our Impact
Our dual strategy—advocacy and model demonstration—allows us to measure impact across dimensions, from tangible community success to influence on media, legislation, and urban trends. We assess whether urban concentration stabilizes or reverses, and if new laws emerge.
News
Welcome To My Village Model — Launch in OR Tambo, Eastern Cape
We are delighted to share an important milestone for our foundation: ES VICIS and its South African partners have agreed to launch the Welcome to My Village model in the
A night to remember: ES VICIS Year-End Cocktail & Art Experience
Last week, we gathered in Basel for a very special moment in the ES VICIS journey. Our Year-End Cocktail & Art Experience, hosted at Sarasin Art, brought together friends, partners,
María Teresa: a small rural village building its future with data
The ES VICIS Foundation and María Teresa, a village in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, with 4,000 inhabitants, carried out a comprehensive diagnostic of the town that included a
He graduated and left the city to become one of the two doctors in a village of 2,000 inhabitants
English Translation of the Clarín Article Ignacio Pieckenstainer (28) was living in Rosario when he decided to move to Maggiolo, a small rural village in southern Santa Fe. The idea
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