Members
Worker
Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA)
It is hard to imagine compressing six months or a year of living and learning in a brand new environment into a scant 300 words. Yet that is exactly what six young people have done in the items that follow. With remarkable freshness and clarity, they capture some truths about co-operatives and about living outside of one’s comfort zone. In many respects, those are the same qualities that...
Sweta Patel
Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) is an autonomous organisation of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Central Government, India. It has undertaken the promotion of the National Yuva Co-operative Society as a way to harness and to channel the productivity capacity of young people. Yuva means YOUTH.
Farming and Ranching Youth for Co-operative Development
Date of Incorporation
Argentinian Co-operatives Association (ACA)
Federation of Co-operative Agrarian Youth Centres
Date of Incorporation
Robin Puga
Ian MacPherson
Julia Smith
Historically, the co-operative movement has always demonstrated an interest in communicating its messages and providing its benefits to young people. The Rochdale Pioneers, shortly after their store was opened, recognized what they could do on behalf of young people and formed a youth study club for them. In 1853, as their Society prospered, they proposed that 10% of their surpluses (or...
AMS Bicycle Co-op
Erica Mah, one of the mechanics at Our Community Bikes, draws in many of the shop’s female customers. Unused to seeing women employed in such a trade and drawn in by the shop’s focus on education and a do...
