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Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Banking and InsuranceAfghan credit unions serve rural communities, in spite of security challenges
Every day credit unions help thousands of Afghan families to improve their lives. A country where rural poverty accounts for 84 per cent of poverty nationwide, Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the...
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Credit UnionsWOCCU Says Give the Gift of Microloans – Credit Union Times
The World Council of Credit Unions is encouraging holiday gift givers to consider giving the gift of microloans. Gifts in the form of $30 donations to the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions will help support...
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Democracy
Co-op divided on union – Ashland Daily Tidings (Oregon)
A months-long discussion of employees unionizing at the Ashland Food Co-op has some workers eager for more say in forming the store's internal policies, but others see it an unnecessary and premature move. Beginning their...
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Business
Veterans’ co-ops build homes fit for heroes – Co-operative News
A Massachusetts co-operative is leading the way in solving the problem of homelessness among US veterans, especially those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these veterans have been left with physical and mental disabilities...
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Democracy
How co-operatives can change the world
THE theme of International Co-operatives Day this year was peace. Legacoop, the National Federation of Co-operatives in Italy, organised an international conference in Rome on the theme "Co-operative work giving hope in lands of conflict"....
