Afghanistan used to produce fantastic silk, but it lost much of its talent and capacity over 27 years of conflict, explains Gabriella Ghidoni. In 2005, Ghidoni, then an aid worker with the United Nations in Kabul, joined talents with two Afghan women to form Royah, a design co-operative with a two-fold mission: to revive the […]
Royah Design
A co-operative of 20 women in Kabul, Afghanistan who create contemporary fashion using Afghan textiles and Italian expertise.
Get the new International Year of Co-operatives twibbon
Key co-operative organisations across the world are supporting a new global twibbon, which is to be released on 12 April, to enable people on Twitter and Facebook around the world to show their support for the International Year of Co-operatives. International Co-operative Alliance, Global News Hub, Co-operatives UK, National Co-operative Business Association, Canadian Co-operative Association […]
No longer a sleepy hollow
Michael Barrett was born and raised in the suburbs of Toronto, Canadas big smoke. He trained as a teacher but then went to work in a stock market-listed multinational. In 1999 he went to work for a small dairy cooperative, Gay Lea Foods. Certainly Gay Lea was seen as sleepy hollow, Barrett reflects. It was […]
GAY LEA FOODS CO-OPERATIVE LTD
Gay Lea Foods is a co-operative owned by over 1,200 farmers. That’s approximately one quarter of Ontario’s dairy farmers, with five production facilities spanning Toronto, Madoc, Mississauga, Guelph, and Teeswater. It manufactures a range of wholesome dairy products including milk, dips, butter, sour cream, whipped cream, and cottage cheese.
Unipol does its bit to get Italy back on its feet
In November 2011 Italy was on the brink of oblivion with bond markets set to send it tumbling into insolvency. Government and regulators were asked to act incisively and responsibly to re-establish the confidence of financial markets in the country. High volatility made it difficult to make even short-time financial forecasts. One month later Italy’s […]
Maltese islands haven for restoration and conservation coop
For a team of art lovers, the restoration work at hand becomes a source of major satisfaction. One starts off with a filthy wall with dirt and surface damage which as it is being documented, studied and conserved finds its way back to its strengthened and uncovered original splendor, explains Agatha Grima, director of the […]
ReCoop – The Restoration and Conservation Cooperative LTD
ReCoop is a fully recognised cooperative made up of professional individuals offering conservation, restoration, art historical, monitoring and consultancy services to the private and public sector, both locally and abroad.
Health Is More Than a Prescription
The streets surrounding the Coomsocial basic-care health clinics bustle with activity: buses and taxies pull up to curbs, trucks deliver supplies, merchants sell to throngs of customers. The clinics are a hub of all this activity. Taxi drivers, bus companies, food vendors, medical suppliers, and many other small businesses depend on the traffic of patients […]
COOPERATIVA MEDICA SOCIAL COOMSOCIAL IPS CTA
With nineteen years of institutional life under the model of an Associated Work Cooperative (CTA in Spanish), we act as a Health Services Provider (IPS in Spanish) institution in Colombia. To date, we have generated 150 dignified, stable, sustainable, and justly remunerated jobs to 150 individuals, and provide health services to 53,0000 Colombians that have […]