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Oxfam partners with Armenian coops
Armenias mountainous expanses are home to many historical treasures, including the first church in the world to be built by the state. Indeed Armenia was the first country to recognise Christianity. It has, and has retained, its own unique alphabet. For all its ancient and historical treasures, this Eastern European nation has a high altitude […]
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April 26, 2012
A society of shoemakers expands
Romania has a long history of co-operation. Indeed, the first producer and service cooperative The Society of Shoemakers was founded in Bucharest in 1879. And, Romania can also lay claim to being one of the founders of the International Co-operative Alliance. Nearly two decades after the Society of Shoemakers was founded, Dimitrie C. […]
The Foster Care Co-operative
Foster Care Co-operative(FCC) is a not-for-distributed-profit Foster Care Agency, based in Malvern, Worcestershire, with regional offices in Cardiff, Bristol and Glasgow. The Co-operative provides an ethical and efficient model of spending public money, on an extremely vulnerable group in Society. Set up in 1999 by Chairman Laurie Gregory, FCC provides an alternative to commercially independent […]
The Ruptors Street Dance Co-operative
The Ruptors is a street dance crew formed in 2008 by students at Lipson Community College, a co-operative school in Plymouth, Devon, south west England, and run as a Young Co-operative as part of the Co-operative Colleges Young Co-operatives scheme. The crew consists of eight students ranging from years 10-12. Since 2008 the Ruptors has […]
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April 30, 2012
Bicycle repair and renovation co-operative at Madras College
Students at Madras College in St Andrews, Scotland are involved in a co-operative enterprise that maintains and sells bicycles. Students source bikes destined for salvage for renovation and sale. The Madras Bicycle Business co-operative has been running for three years out of a workshop based in the school and is a member of the Co-operative […]
Lipson Community College: a co-operative Academy
Lipson Community College became a co-operative Trust school in 2009 and a Co-operative Academy in 2012, joining around 200 co-operative schools across England who have adopted a co-operative structure using a model developed by the Co-operative College. Situated in the city of Plymouth in Devon, it is a large, urban secondary school serving some of […]
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Member stories – Kitunda SACCO, Tanzania
Savings, loans and coaching Kitunda Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) began in 2002 with the aim of providing financial access for people in the area of Kitunda, Tanzania. Located approximately 20 km outside the capital Dar es Salaam, residents of Kitunda have no bank and so depend on Kitunda SACCO for their banking. The SACCO […]
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May 3, 2012
Trade and Logistic Centre COOP – The new face of cooperative trade in Bulgaria
Establishing a national single cooperative market was the reason the Central Cooperative Union built a Trade and Logistic Center COOP. Construction began in 2010 the 120th anniversary of the cooperative movement in Bulgaria, and the Center was officially opened on the occasion of the EURO COOP General Assembly in June 2011. In attendance was […]
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Beit Shein Valley a rich home for kibbutznik
Olives, grapes, wheat, barley, figs, dates and pomegranates. These are the biblical seven species which were written would thrive in Israels sun-baked soil. At the Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu the only religious kibbutz in Israel to solely rely on agriculture and related businesses for its survival they cultivate six of these seven varieties. And, […]
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May 4, 2012
CoCoThrow
It’s about co-operation. It’s about fun for all ages. It’s a game called CoCoThrow which you can play nearly anywhere, with nearly anyone. It need not cost anything at all. It’s not new but it wears well. We started playing it in 2005 when we called it ‘Co-operative Juggling’. In 2006 we took it to […]
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May 6, 2012
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