CHOISES provides affordable cooperative housing to young women in Sydneys east.
Salted Earth
Fifty years ago a massive lagoon lay next to the village of Toubab Dialow. Today a small puddle gathers in the rainy season, but, come September, the land is dry and barren once again. Changes in vegetation and soil have destroyed the lagoon and, along with it, the communitys fishing industry. A cooperative of women […]
The Women’s Group of Toubab Dialaw
The organization works to support the economic and physical health of the women of Toubab Dialow. We seek to create opportunity for environmentally sustainable jobs, education and health. We work to make a better life available for the people of our community.
Coopérative de lamanage des ports de Marseille et du golfe de Fos
Shipping company approved by the seaport of Marseille / Fos for the mooring operations of commercial vessels (docking / undocking / pollution control). Approximately 18,500 operations per year.
Circle of love becomes circle of life
It is sometimes said that if women received the same training and opportunites as men in developing countries, that the number of people living in poverty could drop by as much as 150 million. In South African, the women are taking the situation into their own hands. In Tooseng village in the Limpopo province of […]
Sedikong sa Lerato
We aim to alleviate hunger and poverty and to promote healthy living and a strong sense of self for the orphans and vulnerable children of Toosneg village, helping them grow into confident, awakened human beings.
The Almería Agricultural Cooperative Model: Building successful economic and social communities
In 1955, the Andalucían province of Almería, in southeastern Spain, was a drought-ridden area with little infrastructure and a GDP per capita of less than half the national average. Most residents who had not already fled in search of better opportunities were merely subsisting. Today, it is the top Spanish fruit and vegetable growing area […]
CAJAMAR, Cajas Rurales Unidas
Cajamar Caja Rural (soon to change to Cajas Rurales Unidas), is a credit cooperative bank formed by the merging of the credit cooperatives (cajas rurales) of Andalucía (Almería and Málaga in 2000), Murcia (Campo de Cartagena in 1989), Madrid (Grumeco in 2000), Castilla y León (Caja Rural del Duero in 2007), Baleares (Caixa Rural de […]
Co-operative empowerment in the red light district
1849 – San Francisco heaved with gold-seeking miners and the sailors that had transported them into the Bay from as far away as Australia. The Barbary Coast, the town’s red light district with its pimps, petty thieves and dance halls, drew these travellers in. 1997 – the historic Barbary Coast still plays home to the […]
Turning waste fruit into a profitable business
In the small low-income community of Toisapu, in the Maluku islands, nutmeg used to be seen as a waste fruit. Local villagers would use the nutmeg seed and its mesh, and would throw away the outer cover or the fruit itself. That all changed in 2010, when the Sejuk Women Cooperative came up with the […]