ORUDE trains and mobilizes womens groups to form their own Sub-County Savings and Lending Cooperatives (SUSALECOs), based on cooperative principles. ORUDE provides institutional support and services to the womens groups, with the aim of empowering the women to own and manage the SUSALECOs.
Controlling the future without arms
To survive, at least temporarily, in the Congo between 1996 and 2003, both adults and children took up arms. Many who did not do so voluntarily were forced to participate. War became their means of subsistence. Those who did not fight suffered starvation and displacement. When war ended in 2003, the job of re-establishing basic […]
Cornish Company Shortlisted for Co-operative of the Year
Cornwall’s Renewable Energy Co-operative, a worker owned renewable energy company, has beaten nearly 6000 other Co-operative businesses throughout the UK to become one of just three selected finalists for the coveted Co-operative of the Year UK award. R-ECO is up for the award for ‘demonstrated excellence in the areas of business and commercial performance, installing […]
Housing Coop Commissions Work of Art
The Berlin housing cooperative GeWoSued commissioned the artist Sandra Lange with a wallpainting. Once Building Art was a marketing-must of commercial housing developers. Due to a high housing demand in the big german cities investors today neglect any additional effort. The GeWoSued cooperative tries to achieve with every building or modernisation something special. As art […]
Kooperativet Lärkan
Lärkan is a social cooperative located in west Sweden, in the small town of Grästorp. The cooperative has 40 members and employs 17 full-time staff and a varying number of trainees. The activities of the cooperative cover several areas.The cooperative has a service branch that specialises in yard work and light transport. A second-hand shop […]
Maximizing farmer benefits
Linking its farmer members to local, regional and national markets – thereby doing away with the middlemen who profit at the expense of the farmers – is the key to the success of agricultural cooperatives. The latest report from the FAO on hunger released on October 9, shows that 870 million people do not have […]
Nyabubare ACE
Nyabubare ACE is an agricultural co-operative with total membership of 2020 members who are men, women, youth and people with Disabilities, from 10 rural producer organizations. The ACE majors in 6 Enterprises i.e. wines, mainly from bananas, honey, livestock (piggery and poultry), fish farming coffee and recently has introduced sorghum growing to make them 7 […]
A Model for Small-Scale Farmers in Zanzibar
Though the tropical island of Zanzibar, off the Tanzanian coast in the Indian Ocean, is renowned as an island of spices, white beaches and turquoise waters, it is also home to many incredibly poor people who never see the benefits of the floods of tourists who arrive for their holiday in the sun. Out of […]
Ona Mbele Cooperative Society
Ona Mbele Cooperative Society’s goals and objectives are to eliminate extreme poverty and improve sources of income to members by dividing obtained interest annually. The cooperative society provides graining services to the community and supports other cooperative societies at the shehia of chaani Mcheza Shauri in building capacity on financial management and operations.
Quenching Thirst, Building Economy
Its hot, dusty work in the fields around Fatick, a small agricultural town in the Senegalese interior. Theres nothing better, locals say, than a sweet, soothing drink of bissap, a beverage made from hibiscus blossoms that is renowned for its ability to cool the head and fortify the body. That’s not just folklore: bissap is […]