“sembrando Vidas” – Guillermo Checa wants to become Piura much green

This environmental activist looks for his organization to be a world reference of reforestation.

 

Photographs and video provided by Guillermo Checa, distributed by FACTORTIERRA.

 

 

PIURA CITY, Peru – World forecasts about climate change are not good. All points out the humankind is accelerating the global warming as it’s stated a recent scientific consensus expressed in the so-called doomsday clock located in Chicago, Illinois.

 

It’s considered that planting trees could make a difference and gain time in favor of every alive being.

 

The key is inside two processes any tree makes – evapotranspiration and gas interchange. The first one consists in releasing the water that every vegetable consumes up to the air, turning it in steam. The second one means to converse the existent carbon dioxide around the atmosphere in oxygen. Add the shadow to this, especially at the cities.

 

Warming down

Some sources suggest that an arborized zone inside any urban area can reduce the thermal feeling in 10ºF. This sounds perfect for Piura Metropolitan Area – during January 2024, the metropolis has registered high temperatures going between 93ºF and 97ºF, according to weather.com.

 

That is something usual for Piura City in this year’s season but what changes is how the human being perceives such as a record. And that depends on the place to be, the quality of the matter used for building (the so-called gray infrastructure), and how this all influences in the humidity and the wind pattern. That’s when the arborized zones work like thermal regulators.

 

Guillermo Checa’s initiative

Across Piura Metropolitan Area, there are many initiatives to arborize, many summoned by different social media.  One of them is Sembrando Vidas (Planting Lives), pulled by Guillermo Checa, an entrepreneur and environmental activist, born in Piura where he currently lives.

 

Sembrando Vidas was created on May 18^th, 2019, purposed to arborize the critic zones of Piura Metropolitan Area. Although, it eventually moves everywhere Piura Department only provided its transportation.

 

The work is voluntary and its logistics is funded by private donations and contributions.

 

According to Checa, the vision of Sembrando Vidas is “to be a world reference of reforestation.”  Up to the moment this story is published, the work is still developed in a local scale.

 

Tender, power, patience

The activist thinks the arborization is not a simple social event: “You must be tender of the plants, to be physically trained for the effort that planting means,” especially under the temperature conditions of a summer day in Piura.

 

Once Sembrando Vidas finishes to arborize, it tries to encourage the neighborhood to irrigate, care the plants.  eventually, the same organization visits the previously arborized places to see if its work grows strong and healthy.

 

In the meantime, every place should have tall trees, capable to provide shadow, and maybe controlling the thermal feeling of the place. Up to then, as Checa says, “you got to be patient.”

 

Learn about the aactivities, inform how to joing or donate to sembrando Vidas by clicking on this link.

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