Community Credit Cooperative(CC, Saemaul Geumgo) CC had its beginning with five credit cooperatives, established in Gyeongsangnam-do in 1963. CC, as a financial cooperative, inherits the spirit of mutual help, which is also a main source of Gye, Hyangyak, Dure and has been playing not only economic functions of credit and insurance service but also social […]
Coop Coffee Indonesia
Coop Coffee Indonesia (Co-operative for the Indonesian Coffee) is the business program for the coffee farmers under Indonesian Ministry of Co-operative & Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Of Republic of Indonesia. Two aims of the business is to IMPROVE the coffee farmers’ wealth in co-operative bases and to PROMOTE the Indonesian best coffee to the world due […]
What do people know about co-operatives?
Cooperatives Europe took to the streets of Brussels to find out if and what do people of the EU quarter know about cooperatives! We even met MEPs Maria Joao Rodrogues & Isabella Adinolfi! This is the first video of the 3 part series. To find out more about us, visit https://coopseurope.coop/ Music Bensound – Rumble […]
‘Wish Saemaul Geumgo Cooperative Movement to become seeds of hope in Myanmar’
“Myanmarese competent participants took education on Saemaul Geumgo Movement” Nine former and current officials from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of Myanmar visited Saemaul Geumgo and took training workshop to promote Saemaul Geumgo Movement in Myanmar. Saemaul Geumgo development model has two pillars. One is sustainable financial development stressing savings and the other is […]
Participation: The Glue That Binds
Every week, the members of the Shallalà Honey Producers cooperative in southern Ethiopia must walk seven or eight kilometres to attend their regular meeting. The Italian consumers’ cooperative Coop Adriatica has 1.16 million members, making an Annual General Meeting for all an impossibility. All over the world, cooperatives face different challenges in ensuring that their members can have their say […]
The cooperative movement in Trentino
More than two hundred and twenty seven thousand individuals, in a population of approximately five hundred thousand inhabitants in Trentino, are members of cooperatives. This means that two families in every three are involved in the cooperative movement. Not only that! If the number of existing cooperatives, a few more than six hundred, is compared […]
Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione (Federation of Cooperation in Trentino)
The Federation of Cooperation in Trentino promotes the development of the cooperative movement, coordinates and enhances the activities of cooperatives, and helps direct their actions to most effectively respond to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in society in the spirit of cooperation and mutuality. In this way the Federation aims to contribute to […]
Coop’Art – Express Yourself
As part of our International Year Celebrations, the ICA launched a global artistic competition designed to encourage young people (16-35) to creatively express their views on co-operative principles. There were three different categories for the competition: music, video and photography. The aim was to create a song, a video or a photograph that promotes the […]