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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 […]
May 23, 2012
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, […]
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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 […]
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May 25, 2012
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 […]
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Reversing the Trend: The Italian Social Consortium Exporting to China
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 […]
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COMPAÑÍA COOPERATIVA DE SEGUROS SURCO
SURCO was established as a joint effort between important Uruguayan cooperatives, supported and advised by prestigious insurance cooperatives in America and Europe. It had its beginnings in life insurance and officially began operating on 9 September 1992. SURCO inherited from its founders a commitment to the national market, shaped by more than 50 years of […]
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May 28, 2012
Co-op insurance thrives in Uruguay
Professionalism, attention, cordiality, responsibility, advice, commitment, autonomy, transparency, innovation these are weighty words, but it is a heavy task that the Compañía Cooperativa de Seguros has taken on. According to its president, Sergio Fuentes, it is building a co-operative insurance business, designed to serve generations of members for years to come. Above all, when […]
Power of cooperative communication
Proyecto Coopar was created in 2009 by a group of students from different professional backgrounds. In the beginning it was a graphic design and communication initiative that worked in the co-operative sector on different projects. Since its creation the graphic design area has worked in the areas of image development, electronic programming and editorial work. […]
Clean Water, Cooperative Principles
Rapid urbanization around the world is greatly increasing pressure on public water utilities, meaning that getting clean drinking water and safely disposing of waste can be some of the biggest problems facing city-dwellers in developing countries. One Bolivian success story has shown how cooperatives might provide an alternative way for urban communities to get clean […]
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May 29, 2012
Watthan Artisans work by hand
The members of the Watthan Artisans Cooperative like to say they focus on their abilities, not their disabilities. The treacherous period under the control of the Communist Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in the late 1970s left the countrys economy teetering. Pol Pots infamous killing fields were mass graves. The number of Cambodians who […]
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June 1, 2012
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