In barely 10 years, the In Concerto consortium in Castelfranco Veneto has grown to become the biggest business in the area. Founded in 2002 and covering a zone with 100,000 inhabitants, the consortium has almost 1,300 employees, including over 200 with some kind of physical or social disadvantage, and provides rehabilitation services to over 1,000 […]
Consorzio In Concerto Cooperativa Sociale
In Concerto is a consortium comprised of 22 social cooperatives, 5 of which provide social services and 16 of which focus on work integration activities, plus 1 investment company for real estate acquisition for the consortium. The consortium was created in order to further unite cooperatives that had already been working together, building a network […]
Four Thousand Three Hundred Kilometers of Credit
Bounded by some of the earths most dramatic landscapes, Chile, a thin lance of land, stretches four thousand three hundred kilometers down the western edge of South America. The trembling, volcanic Andean Cordiera, home to some of the highest peaks in the world, forms the country’s eastern border. To the west, large cold Pacific Ocean […]
First Stop!
The Co-cycle Project is a youth-led, bike-powered tour linking co-operatives across the US. The Co-cycle team kicked off their tour on June 1st in San Francisco, CA and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to stop in at their first Bike Co-op – The Bicycle Works – outside San Anselmo, CA.
Overcoming the Legacy of the War
The Cua Lo beach in northern Vietnam, where the Lam River joins the South China Sea, is home to the Song Lam cooperative, which provides invaluable services to local fishermen like supplying petrol and diesel, repairing vessels, running training courses and purchasing and processing the catch. A member of the Nghe An Cooperative Provincial Alliance, […]
Song Lam Fisheries Production and Services and Processing Cooperative
The Song Lam cooperative provides general fisheries services and processing. Set up in 1971, the cooperative’s main activties relate to manufacturing, business services, and community development.
Uniting India’s Fishing Cooperatives
India’s long coastline and rich inland waters means that fishing is a major industry in the country, with over 14 million people involved in fishing and aquaculture. Fishing communities, however, are among the weakest in society, suffering from illiteracy, poverty and lack of knowledge about technology. Many fishermen are exploited by middlemen, but cooperatives can […]
FISHCOPFED – National Federation of Fishermens Cooperatives Ltd.
The National Federation of Fishermens Cooperatives Ltd. (FISHCOPFED) is a national level federation of fisheries cooperatives and the apex institution of Indian Fisheries Cooperative Movement. Its Motto is to promote and develop the fishery cooperative movement in India, to educate, guide and assist fishers in their efforts to build up and expand the fishery cooperative […]
A truly global website
Stories.coop has reached over 40,000 visits from almost 30,000 unique visitors! And these visitors to the website really are global – there has been at least 1 visitor from almost every country in the world as can be seen in the map. And our Stories of the Day have featured 55 countries so far from […]
TUCURA LTDA (COOTRANSTUR). A TRANSPORTERS CO-OPERATIVE
The transporters co-operative Tucura Ltda (COOTRANSTUR) was founded on 13th September 1976 and named after an indigenous tribe (Tucura) that lived in the region of the upper reaches of the Sinú river. They transported timber and corn by rafts which slid down the river Sinú pushed by its currents up to the river ports of […]