In 1999, at a time in which 50% of Argentina’s population was without access to health care, the Argentine Federation of Solidarity Health Entities (FAESS) was formed to bring users and providers together to develop a cooperative Health Service model. The mission of FAESS is to provide cooperatives, mutuals, and other sectors with adequate health […]
FAESS – Federacion Argentina de Entidades Solidarias de Salud
The Argentine Federation of Solidarity Health Entities (Federación Argentina de Entidades de Salud Solidaria, FAESS) was created from a collaborative agreement between the Mobilized Institute of Cooperative Funds (Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, IMFC) and the Cooperative Confederation of the Republic of Argentina (La Confederación Cooperativa de la Republica Argentina, COOPERAR) to formulate an integrative […]
Amazing (Ore Ofe) Co-operative Society Limited Dublin, Ireland
This co-operative group was established in 2008 by six immigrants from Africa. The venture engages in promoting and supplying Afro-European clothing. It is a fashion design business that mixes African and European fabrics to create beautiful clothing. In the summer of last year, the venture organized a fashion fair in which they exhibited a rich […]
Celebrating the success of the co-operative cuppa
Tea is enjoyed by many people many times a day. So it’s refreshing to know that thanks to Essential Trading you can choose a cuppa that will make a real difference to the livelihoods of thousands of people involved in co-operative, biodynamic tea production. Egypt is not the first country that springs to mind when […]
How a Cooperative Saved a Home
You’ve lived for 25 years in a wonderful house in the Welsh countryside. Your grown children want to come back to live with you and raise their own children there. But your ex-husband wants a payout of his share of the value of your family home, which you can’t afford. What do you do? If […]
Free Software is cooperative
A cooperative resolves the need to work in a democratic way, to reclaim work as a creative enterprise, to build with others. Thus, work is not simply done for profit maximization, but also for the growth of the people who do it, taking into account the social and environmental impact thereby generated, writes Pablo A. […]
Kigayaza Youth Co-operative, Kayunga District, Uganda
Kigayaza members not only sell products together, but they also have shared projects including pigs and growing trees. They concentrate on sharing information with each other, including through training and meetings which they see as a way to build each others knowledge. They have received a series of sensitisation and training meetings provided by Uganda […]
Focus on Youth – week of July 1, 2012
See the amazing things youth around the world are achieving through cooperation in this week’s Stories.coop stories. We’ll meet students innovating in a high school in Lesotho, Argentinian youth using the power of communication, farmers in Uganda, and we’ll see what Sicilian social cooperatives are doing with a villa confiscated from the Mafia. And let’s […]
CECOP-CICOPA Europe – The European Confederation of cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises in industry and services
CECOP CICOPA Europe is the European Confederation of Worker Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Social and Participative Enterprises. It groups national organisations in 16 countries which in turn affiliate over 50.000 cooperative and participative enterprises in industry and services, the vast majority being SMEs, and employing 1.4 million workers across Europe. Most of them are […]
Young people at the Co-operative College in Uganda
The College houses 350 students, all pursuing co-operative related diplomas combining ideas on business, micro finance or co-operative management. This makes it one of the central providers of education on co-operatives, particularly for youth in Uganda. Students are generally between the ages of 19 and 35 (although the average age is 23 to 24 years) […]