With 14 years in the Paraguayan market Aseguradora Tajy is one of the top companies in the Paraguayan cooperative movement. Aseguradora Tajy operates in life and non-life and is made up of 24 cooperatives.
Out of crisis rises P&V
When the P&V cooperative insurance group decided to double in size through the purchase of the brokers channel of INGs Belgium operations, it didn’t realise the Global Financial Crisis was about to descend upon it. If anything demonstrates the resilience of the cooperative insurance model, that moment was it. It took place on the eve […]
P&V Group
The P & V Group is a cooperative insurance group that was founded in 1907 with the aim of offering as many people as possible fair protection. Over the years, the group has grown steadily. Each brand and distribution channel which forms part of the P & V Group has their own identity. However, they […]
SSVMN dominates insurance in Costa Rica
It was a rural schoolteacher, Alejandro Rodríguez, who first raised the idea of a social institution in Costa Rica. The year was 1920 and the country was fresh from the unhappy reign of military dictator General Federico Tinoco Granados. After Granados was overthrown, the unpopularity of his regime led to a considerable decline in the […]
Sociedad de Seguros de Vida Magisterio Nacional
The Sociedad de Seguros de Vida del Magisterio Nacional is dedicated to bringing financial protection to its members via the Mutual Life Insurance and complementary services.
The slow steps to change a way of thinking
In rural Nepal 81 per cent of women are victims of domestic violence. Nepal is home to the worlds tallest mountain, Everest. In Nepal, widows are termed bokshi and are cast out as witches. Nepal boasts one of the most beautiful expanses of nature in the world. In Nepal, a woman is raped once every […]
Patti Carpenter, Entrepreneur and ACDI/VOCA Volunteer, on the Value of Women in Cooperatives
With her keen sense of Western consumer preferences, Patti Carpenter, president and creative director of New York Citys Continuum Home, Inc./Carpenter + Company, works with artisans in emerging markets to design products that can be produced using indigenous forms and methods, and then she pitches them to such well-known retailers as Bloomingdales. Through organizations like […]
Unimed: For Many an Unrealistic Dream
In the mid-1960s, Brazil had a mercantile-based medical system that limited free choice and, for many doctors, stood in the way of their dreams of professional excellence and justice. Some medical professionals began to envision an alternative structure for health care: the cooperative. This was an unprecedented idea for the medical field in Brazil and […]
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 […]
Watthan Artisans Cooperative
Watthan Artisans – Cambodia (WAC) is a worker-run cooperative of Cambodian artisans with disabilities. It is a training and production based cooperative that trains new students with disabilities in handicraft production and fine woodcarving. Our goal is to improve the living standard of people with disabilities in Cambodia through training and employment.