TRASOL

Solidarity Care Workers Organized in Cooperatives for Our Rights

Project Summary

With the project Solidarity Care Workers Organized in Cooperatives for Our Rights (TRASOL), Socodevi works to promote and defend the rights and needs of women and adolescent girls who are members of worker co-operatives in the paid care sector in Guatemala and Honduras. The project also supports the participation of feminist and Indigenous organizations in economic, educational, political, and social life, in order to strengthen their agency and recognition within society.

Objectives

  • Improve the socio-economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls working in the paid care sector
  • Increase women’s and adolescent girls participation in the economic, educational, political, community, and recreational activities of their choice
  • Strengthen the capacity of co-operatives and collective care enterprises to increase the economic power of their members and allies
  • Consolidate the protection and promotion of their rights and needs in paid care provision

Testimonials

“Collective and co-operative entrepreneurship is at the heart of our approach. It is a lever to provide women and adolescent girls’ with tools to improve their situation in a sustainable way and to defend their rights. We want them to fully participate in society! And what about men in all this? They will also have tools to become essential allies.

  • Caroline Poussart
    Socodevi Program Officer

Partners

Civil society organizations
    • In Honduras: 
      • Consejo Nacional de la Mujer Cooperativista de Honduras (CONAMUCOOPH)
      • COMUCAP
      • LAS HORMIGAS
    • In Guatemala : 
      • Comité Nacional de las Mujeres Cooperativistas (CNMC)
      • Centro de Apoyo para las Trabajadoras de Casa Particular (CENTRACAP)
      • Asociación Generando Equidad, Liderazgo y Oportunidades (ASOGEN)
      • REDMUSOVI
Alliances
    • In Guatemala: 
      • Confederación Guatemalteca de Federaciones Cooperativas (CONFECOOP)
      • INACOP
      • MNTRAB
      • CECI
      • Secretaría Presidencial de la Mujer (SEPREM)
    • In Honduras : 
      • Lawyers Without Borders (Honduras
      • Consejo Nacional Supervisor de Cooperativas (CONSUCOOP)
      • CHC
      • Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)
      • Instituto Nacional de la Mujer (SEMUJER)

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