Lemongrass is a green, spiky grass which proliferates as ground vegetation in waist-high mounds. In some countries the herb is believed to guard against anxiety, in others to help with coughs. In the mountainous climes of Bhutan lemongrass grows wild. But as one of the kingdoms resident lemongrass experts, Karma Yanka, explains that paradoxically its people dont ingest […]
Powerful national co-operative movement looks to young to grow global movement
One in three Singaporean residents is a member of a co-operative, explains Dolly Goh. But when the lively chief executive of the Singapore National Co-operative Federation (SNCF) talks about her McDonalds strategy she is not only talking about the island nation.This federation has been quietly taking one of its concepts for 2012, the UN International […]
Lemongrass Co-operative
The cooperative exports through a business called Bio Bhutan which manufactures soap and other products using the special oil. It also exports oil to neighbouring India, Nepal and to Thailand.
Another type of banking
A bank whose operations are as wide-ranging as those of Bank Rakyat can afford to change the way it does business. In 2003, 49 years after its foundation, Malaysias Bank Rakyat, one of Asias largest co-operative banks, embraced an operating system based on Shariah (Islamic legal) principles. Since then Bank Rakyat has been able to further extend its operations to the Malaysian islands of Sabah and Sarawak. Bank Rakyat is driven by […]
Bank Rakyat
Established in 1954, Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad (Bank Rakyat) is currently the largest Islamic cooperative bank in Malaysia.
CHOISES Young Women’s Cooperative
CHOISES provides affordable cooperative housing to young women in Sydneys east.
Salted Earth
Fifty years ago a massive lagoon lay next to the village of Toubab Dialow. Today a small puddle gathers in the rainy season, but, come September, the land is dry and barren once again. Changes in vegetation and soil have destroyed the lagoon and, along with it, the communitys fishing industry. A cooperative of women […]
The Women’s Group of Toubab Dialaw
The organization works to support the economic and physical health of the women of Toubab Dialow. We seek to create opportunity for environmentally sustainable jobs, education and health. We work to make a better life available for the people of our community.
Coopérative de lamanage des ports de Marseille et du golfe de Fos
Shipping company approved by the seaport of Marseille / Fos for the mooring operations of commercial vessels (docking / undocking / pollution control). Approximately 18,500 operations per year.
Circle of love becomes circle of life
It is sometimes said that if women received the same training and opportunites as men in developing countries, that the number of people living in poverty could drop by as much as 150 million. In South African, the women are taking the situation into their own hands. In Tooseng village in the Limpopo province of […]