Cooperatives in Venezuela Promote Solidarity, Equality and Dignity
Venezuelan Cooperative
The stories of the how and why of co-operatives in other parts of the world are always interesting. It’s also interesting to hear the stories of how not just the co-operatives have evolved but how individual members and communities have evolved as well.
OMAR GARCIA: Our production in Las Lajitas is completely organic. We began to farm in a conventional way, but seeing that it brought many problems of pollution, both in those who consumed the product as well as in those who work the land. It was creating health problems. Seeing the level of pollution in the water and the environment we decided to figure out how we could produce in an organic way.
In this case when we formed the cooperative we were all men. But after time women started to affiliate themselves with the cooperative, which we thought was extremely interesting, that women also joined in cooperative work apart from the work that they already have as housewives. Also that they participate with the same rights and decision-making power that we as men have. Now we see women as people, not as a slave in the kitchen working and watching the children and I know that this has been because of the cooperative.
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