Fresh, clean, affordable water. It is difficult to imagine anything more important. Throughout rural Chile small cooperatives manage regional sanitation. Driving through the countryside, one sees occasional lagoons and water tanks glinting in the distance. Dedicated community members maintain these reservoirs and the pipes and drainage systems that keep them functioning. However, groups often work […]
Federacion Nacional de Cooperativas de Servicios Sanitarios Ltda. FESAN
FESAN, the National Federation of Sanitary Services Cooperatives, is an organization representing small and medium organizations providing water and treatment services. Our mission is to contribute to professionalization; management, administrative and technical capacity building; and collaboration among cooperatives and other organizations in the sector. We aim to increase the capacity of these organizations to contribute […]
Electricity a catalyst for development
It may be the national day and offices across the country are closed, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find Jim Ford at his desk. The development expert who has worked in the field for the National Rural Electric Association (NRECA) of the United States for decades, spent many years in Bangladesh directing technical assistance […]
Weavers Way Food Cooperative
Weavers Way Cooperative Association exists to provide commercial and community services for the greater good of its members and community, to champion the cooperative model and to strengthen the local economy. We currently operate two grocery stores, Urban Farms focused on production and education, within the city limits of Philadelphia, and a non-profit arm that […]
Myths, death and insurance
Many Salvadorians believe in myths. When it comes to insuring against death it is a difficult concept for these people because taking out this kind of insurance is seen as wishing someone will die. Nevertheless, for the many individuals from El Salvador who move north to the United States, death and, for some, the repatriation […]
Seguros Futuro, A.C. de R.L.
Seguros Futuros is the only insurance cooperative in El Salvador, operating in life and non-life insurance and developing financial education about microinsurance for its policy-holders.
Where cooperation, insurance and football combine
There are many measures of success. In Latin America, owning ones own football team has to be one of them especially when that football team wins the national league. By this measure, La Equidad Seguros is a success, just as it is by a number of others. With assets of $US135 million, it is one […]
Metal Working in the Austrian Alps
Surrounded by jagged snow-capped peaks year-round, the Stubai Valley in the Austrian Alps is known for skiing, hikingand steel manufacturing. Starting in the 14th century, iron ore deposits were mined here, sparking the valleys nascent iron production and manufacturing industry. Now, the valley, which has a population of just 14,000, processes several thousand tons of […]
Rise and Shine youth co-operative
Khotso, pula, nala peace, rain, prosperity is the motto of the mountainous, landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho. Despite having been inhabited by the British, fought over by the Boers, then by its own people, this diamond-rich highland country has been at peace since 1999. With 40 per cent of its population living below the […]
CIC KENYA pays claims relating to post-election violence
Kenyan cooperative insurer, CIC Insurance Group, took a clear stand to pay claims resulting from losses due to political violence, unlike some insurance companies that have attached conditions to honoring such claims. Post-election related claims paid by the company amounted to about Kshs. 100 million (USD 1.2 million), mainly from small businesses owned by members […]