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Reinventing the future for paid care workers in Central America
17 October 2024
What’s TRASOL? In a nutshell, it’s SOCODEVI’s new innovative social justice initiative to make a real difference in Guatemala and Honduras. With financial backing from the Canadian government, our teams will spend the next several years working to improve the living conditions of 4,500 women and 1,250 young girls who are paid care workers in both countries.
SOCODEVI takes part in World Cleanup Day for the first time
17 October 2024
For the 5th edition of World Cleanup Day and its first year as an International Day on the United Nations Calendar, SOCODEVI asked its teams to roll up their sleeves and get cleaning! The aim of this global initiative is to bring people together to clean up the waste polluting our environment.
Women’s cooperatives in Morocco: an inspiring exchange!
17 October 2024
On August 26–28, 2024, the Resilient Women in the Middle Atlas (FERMA) project organized a series of highly rewarding exchanges among several women’s cooperatives in the Middle Atlas region. This event, led by SOCODEVI in partnership with Morocco’s national water and forestry agency (ANEF) and with financial backing from the Government of Canada, is one of our many efforts to empower women financially and help them sustainably manage natural resources.
Colombian cocoa exported to the Netherlands and the United States!
26 June 2024
Together, we’re celebrating the result of hard work by the indigenous Arhuaco community in Colombia, which directly exported 7.5 tons of organic cocoa to two companies in the Netherlands, Chocolate Makers and Crafting Markets
A look back at our 39th Annual Conference
26 June 2024
United for intercooperation. These words were central to SOCODEVI’s 39th Annual Assembly, held on June 13 at Quebec City Cruise Terminal.
Natur’ELLES project launched in Senegal
26 June 2024
SOCODEVI launched the Natur’ELLES project on May 2, in Toubacouda, at a ceremony attended by authorities from the Fatick region, the Department of Marine Protected Areas, the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, other partners and the Canadian ambassador to Senegal.
A cooperative world is a better world!
22 February 2024
To celebrate International Development Week (February 4–10), our team hit the road to visit several of our network’s member institutions.
The PROCED journey comes to a celebratory end
22 February 2024
In December 2023, after five years in operation, the Development Program for Inclusive and Sustainable Model Cooperatives (PROCED) took its final bow, with closing ceremonies held in all three of the host countries for the program: Senegal, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
We are continuing to make history in Honduras
22 February 2024
The year closed off with a bang in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with the launch of the SABORES project!
Meet SOCODEVI’s new Chair of the Board!
22 February 2024
Céline Delhaes is a Director at Agropur, one of our member institutions—and as of December 2023, she is the new Chair of SOCODEVI’s own Board of Directors. We wanted to get to know Céline a bit better, so our team sat down with this inspiring woman to talk about the impressive path that led her to SOCODEVI. Enjoy!
