COOVIPORFAC ES UNA COOPERATIVA DE TRABAJO ASOCIADO QUE NACIÓ EN FACATATIVA CON RECURSOS Y EL GRAN ESFUERZO DE SUS SOCIOS FUNDADORES EL DÍA 12 DE DICIEMBRE AÑO 1983. LA SEDE PRINCIPAL DE LA COOPERATIVA INICIALMENTE FUE INSTALADA EN LA CASA DE UNO DE LOS FUNDADORES Y POSTERIORMENTE TRASLADADA A LA CARRERA 3 CON CALLE 11 […]
A certified alternative to blood gold
Much media attention has been drawn to the problem of blood diamonds, but what about blood gold? The gold mining industry is often highly exploitative and unregulated, plagued by issues like child labour and hellish working conditions and causing enormous environmental damage because of the mercury and cyanide used in the extraction process, not to […]
Cooperativa Cotapata
Cotapata is a gold mining cooperative in Bolivia’s Cotapata National Park area. It was the worlds first mining organization to receive Fairtrade and Fairmined certification.
COOTRASERVICORD CTA: Successful Experiences
It used to be that a public company provided the critical service of maintaining water and sewage facilities for the people of Monteria, Columbia. However, when the company faced liquidation, several former employees recognized a crucial need in their community. They banded together to make sure the water and sewage network and systems did not […]
COOTRASERVICORD CTA
Cootraservicord C.T.A. is a workers cooperative whose social objective is to create and maintain job opportunities in the operation and matinance of water and sewage systems.
Building Italy for over a century
From humble origins CMB stands for Cooperativa Braccianti e Muratori, the cooperative of labourers and bricklayers, and Carpi is a small town in Emilia-Romagna CMB Carpi has grown to become one of Italys top ten construction groups, building motorways, hospitals and shopping centres all over the country. The original cooperatives, the Cooperativa Braccianti […]
CMB Carpi
One of Italys leading construction companies, working on hospitals, shopping centres, housing projects and large-scale infrastructure.
A footstep in the past with an eye to the future – Ko Ng Tapuwae o namata, He Tirohanga ake m App
Te Kaihanga is the Maori word for builder or creator, physical or otherwise. Between the late 1960s and the 1990s, thousands of Maori teenagers came from New Zealands North Island to study and work in Christchurch (South Island) under a program run by New Zealands now defunct Maori Affairs Department. These teenagers trained for 1-2 […]
Te Kaihanaga Cooperative
is a start-up that aims to mobilise a skilled Maori trade labour force to create better opportunities for tradespeople by working cooperatively. Members currently deliver trade services in the residential building sector and this will be the cooperatives primary market.
Cooperative Development Program in Paraguay: Helping Women Become Agricultural Leaders
Claudelina Portillo was the only woman in an elected leadership position in the Guayaibi Poty cooperative in Paraguay. Many of her female friends told her they could not join because the $3 monthly fee was too high. Portillo raised the issue with the other cooperative leaders, but they weren’t willing to find a solution. Faced […]