How CELL Started
In January 1999, sine Columbian Missionaries in partnership with friends opened the Center for Ecozoic Living and learning or CELL. The vision to open a center was inspired initially by the Columbian Missionary Society which in their 1988 General Assembly reflected on their experience of solidarity of the poor. They came to starlight insight: the system that denies the poor a livelihood is also a system that is destroying the Earth, and therefore denies them the possibility of ever having a livelihood. :The poor," the Assembly concluded, "required of those in solidarity with them a dedication to saving the source of their livelihood, the Earth." CELL is located in a 1.2 hectare land that the Noel Mondejar Foundation provided rent-free for 15 years. The dynamism and hard word of the founders of CELL continue to create a largely self-sufficient Ecozoic farm comprising a home farm, working woodlands, productive gardens, and restful grounds.