Cecosesola "Building Here and Now the World that...

This presentation is called “Building Here and Now the World that we Want.” This is what we are developing now through a network of cooperatives in west central Venezeula, including the states of Trujillo, Lara, Portuguesa, Barinas and Yaracuy. CECOSESOLA, the Lara State Central Cooperative, began as a funeral service. Today a weekly fee of 3 bolivares (approximately US$0.35) covers a cooperative member and up to eight direct family members for funeral services. Education has been the fundamental base to develop our activities since our beginning. Everyday we practice this through constant reflection. Historically, we also organized a local transport bus cooperative. Though we no longer run that cooperative, it makes us very proud, because through it we learned much and gained experience from the many mistakes we made. CECOSESOLA was born out of a genuine need. Eventually we developed production and supply sectors. This includes an agricultural production group, as well as small production cooperatives that produce cleaning products, cereals and other products for the community... Read more on http://priven.nhlf.org/%E2%80%9Cbuilding-here-and-now-the-world-that-we-want%E2%80%9D-by-lizeth-vargas-and-dario-gonzalez-cecosesola/ || First Global PROUT Conference, 7 to July 9, 2011, Caracas, Venezuela.