To survive, at least temporarily, in the Congo between 1996 and 2003, both adults and children took up arms. Many who did not do so voluntarily were forced to participate. War became their means of subsistence. Those who did not fight suffered starvation and displacement. When war ended in 2003, the job of re-establishing basic […]
Cornish Company Shortlisted for Co-operative of the Year
Cornwall’s Renewable Energy Co-operative, a worker owned renewable energy company, has beaten nearly 6000 other Co-operative businesses throughout the UK to become one of just three selected finalists for the coveted Co-operative of the Year UK award. R-ECO is up for the award for ‘demonstrated excellence in the areas of business and commercial performance, installing […]
Latincoop
We are a worker Co-operative. In response to the growth of Latino immigrants in the province of Ontario Canada Cooperative born the first Hispanic named “Latincoop”. This idea is realized after a hard work of a group of eight Hispanic professionals concerned about meeting the needs of the Latino community. This new initiative has received […]
Working Together to Kill Zombies
Die2Nite is a computer game about zombies. But it is also, according to one review, an interactive piece of social commentary, in which you join 39 other players in a town repeatedly beset upon by the living dead. Its your choice whether or not to help the community or live (and die) alone. With its […]
Motion Twin
Motion Twin is a worker-run cooperative developing browser-based computer games. Every member has an equal share in the company as well as the right to vote on all decisions regardless of their seniority or qualifications. We like to work in an environment that respects and provides equal rights for all. At Motion-Twin, there is no […]
Bring on the buzz! – Meet the City Bee Association, Copenhagen, Denmark
“We make the city buzz with life!” Bybi (City Bee) works with social organisations, businesses and 3 million bees to improve the urban environment and unlock the social and economic benefits of sustainable beekeeping and honey production in Copenhagen. Bybi is a social co-operative enterprise. The profits Bybi make are reinvested in the association’s social […]
Rwandan food co-operatives get funding from Canada
Rwanda is Africa’s most densely populated country. More than 1,000 people occupy each square kilometer of the East African nation. On top of that, in Rwanda 56 per cent of those people live below the poverty line. Co-operatives are an important part of the nation’s food security strategy because sustaining the population from the available […]
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat The Chairman of the Methodist Co-operative Society Ltd, John Cheong, often uses the above phrase to make light of the seldomspokenof bereavement industry and yet in all seriousness, it is this compassionate role that one of its subsidiaries, Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd, has been providing to Christian families […]
Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd
Hosanna Bereavement Services is a subsidiary of the Methodist Cooperative Society Ltd. a one-stop centre for bereavement and funeral related services; such as transportation, embalming, casket supply, and other related funeral services including food, drink, tentage, mobile toilet, press announcements, photography, as well as other ancillary services like arrangements for the supply of urns and […]
Ecosphera
Ecosphera is a Type B social coop (30% of members must be from one or more disadvantaged groups) that provides environmental services for the city of Forlì, in Emilia Romagna, Italy. As a social cooperative, a core mission of Ecosphera is to provide meaningful ways to engage its disabled/disadvantaged staff as productive members of the […]