See the amazing things youth around the world are achieving through cooperation in this week’s Stories.coop stories. We’ll meet students innovating in a high school in Lesotho, Argentinian youth using the power of communication, farmers in Uganda, and we’ll see what Sicilian social cooperatives are doing with a villa confiscated from the Mafia. And let’s […]
Rise and Shine student co-operative
Rise and Shine student co-operative has around 40 members aged 15 to 21 years, who are all students at Mohales Hoek High School. Their main activity is the provision of savings and credit to students who are members and also to teachers at the school.
CECOP-CICOPA Europe – The European Confederation of cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises in industry and services
CECOP CICOPA Europe is the European Confederation of Worker Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Social and Participative Enterprises. It groups national organisations in 16 countries which in turn affiliate over 50.000 cooperative and participative enterprises in industry and services, the vast majority being SMEs, and employing 1.4 million workers across Europe. Most of them are […]
Uganda Co-operative College
Uganda Cooperative College Kigumba is the only Cooperative College in the country. It started at Nsamizi in 1954, transferred to Bukalasa in 1963 and to the present campus in 1974. It is a tertiary institution of higher learning housing 350 students.
Young people at the Co-operative College in Uganda
The College houses 350 students, all pursuing co-operative related diplomas combining ideas on business, micro finance or co-operative management. This makes it one of the central providers of education on co-operatives, particularly for youth in Uganda. Students are generally between the ages of 19 and 35 (although the average age is 23 to 24 years) […]
A Growing Share of Canada’s Funerals
Cooperative funeral homes have proven a highly successful model in Canada, and especially Quebec. The cooperative movement is growing, with 9,600 deaths treated by funeral cooperatives in 2011 in Canada, up more than 5 percent from 2010. The Fédération des Coopératives Funéraires du Québec (Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec) is the umbrella structure for […]
Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec (Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec)
The Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec is the umbrella structure for all the funeral cooperatives in Québec. Founded in 1987, the Federation currently has 35 member cooperatives with a combined total of 170,000 members. The 23 member cooperatives located in Quebec handle over 90% of the deaths managed by all the funeral cooperatives of […]
A Life Long Commitment
What do teenagers and small business owners have in common? They are two of the many populations that participate in and benefit from membership in the Ecuadorian credit union OSCUS. For all of its members OSCUS dedicates itself to long-term life planning for members that goes beyond standard savings-and-loans. Visit one of the many OSCUS […]
Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito OSCUS Ltda.
OSCUS mission “to work together to improve the quality of life of its members” is implemented through the execution of its strategic priorities to achieve its vision, “to be a model of the application of values and principles of social responsibility”. With its head office in Ambato, Ecuador, and its eleven branches, OSCUS was awarded […]
How a funeral co-op was born
After having its funeral home contracts cancelled twice in 18 months by a large mulinational corporation, Service Corporation International, the members of PEOPLES MEMORIAL Association voted at their annual meeting on April 12, 2007 to open their own cooperative funeral home in Seattle. This new funeral home would be owned by the members of PEOPLES […]