Established in 2004 and based in Buwenge sub-county in Eastern Uganda, JoyFod Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO) has over 1,400 members who have savings accounts with them and are taking loans. People in rural areas find it difficult to access the formal banking sector as most banks are far away in town and there […]
Downtown Daycare Co-operative: Giving parents a say
In May 2011, a group of women from the Women’s Co-op Business Program in New Brunswick decided to start a co-op for working parents – a place where parents could have a say in who takes care of their children and how. The result was the Downtown Daycare Co-operative, which opened its doors on March […]
Downtown Daycare Co-operative
The Downtown Daycare Co-operative is Moncton’s first non-profit, parent-owned daycare and one of the few daycares operating in the city’s core. It offers spaces for children from ages 15 months to four years along with a pre-school program for 4- and 5-year-olds and an after-school program for children ages five to 12. The goal of […]
Serving the cooperative movement in Cyprus
The Cyprus Cooperative Central Bank was established in 1937 by the cooperative institutions and started operating on the 1st of January 1938. The main reason leading to its establishment was the need for a cooperative central body which would make the work of the cooperative movement more efficient. The Bank evolved rapidly and thanks to […]
iCOOP KOREA’s Practice for Enhancing Biodiversity in Rice Paddy Ecosystem
iCOOP KOREA is the second largest consumer co-op group in Korea. As a leading protagonist of ethical consumerism in civil society, it has engaged in various socioeconomic activities for protecting domestic agriculture and environment since 1998 when it was founded. Our business and activities cover direct-dealing of eco-friendly products, merchandising of more reliable processing foods, […]
iCOOP KOREA
iCOOP KOREA is a consumer co-operative group making alternatives through economic activites in respect of problems in our everyday life such as food safety, child care, gender, environment and agriculture in cooperation with members and their neighbors. iCOOP KOREA practices contract cultivation by communication with farmers who has exchanged for a long time, and provides […]
In Kenya, working hand in hand with the ILO to create cooperatives and jobs
As the afternoon sun alights behind the rugged hills of the Machakos district in Kenyas Eastern Province, dairy farmer Peter Ndhuli walks across his idyllic farm towards a large mound. This one I made it last year. This is one way of challenging the climate, he says as he lifts the covering to reveal the […]
More than 50 years of experience in banking sector
The Co-operative Movement in Cyprus, considered as one of the most well organized and the strongest in the world, was introduced at the beginning of the 20th Century and the first Co-operative Society was founded in 1909. In 1937 the Co-operative Central Bank was founded. Its purpose was to provide credit for those member societies […]
Cyprus Turkish Cooperative Central Bank Ltd.
Cyprus Turkish Co-operative Central Bank Ltd. was established in 1959 and members of the Bank are the Co-operative Societies, which are obliged by the Co-operative Law to deposit their liquid funds with the Bank. Koopbank has 217 member co-operative societies and 19 branches which carry out the activities throughout the country and render services to […]
Bulgarian cooperative supports tiny town
Malki Lom is an agricultural cooperative in Sadina, a village with 1,000 inhabitants in Northern Bulgaria. The cooperative, named after the nearby river, was established in 1993, at a time when no bank was willing to provide it with funding. The situation improved in 2000 when Tihomir Todorov was elected chairman. In 2002 Malki Lom […]