We have created the cooperative based on the 'cooperativa integral' model, specifically inspired by the Cooperativa Integral Minga in Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo.

 

Our Cooperative is also a multi sector cooperative, with an aim to support the wider community to be more resilient.

Sectors:

• Agricultural

• Services

• Cultural

• Learning

• Worker Production

• Consumer

• Housing and Construction

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Collaborator membership is suitable for those who are self employed and/or have a business and would like to share 

• an accountant (IVA refunds, invoicing, justifying costs and revenues etc.)

• Insurance

• Equipment

And to 

• Hire people

• Sell products in a shop or market etc.

 

We are making an open call for interest from potential collaborator members. We imagine a small regular membership fee to contribute to the shared costs.

For now we wish to discuss this and explore how it could work best to serve the wider community and be sustainable for all.

 

Some translated quotes from the Minga website mingamontemor.pt:

 

"A cooperative is an autonomous association of people, who come together voluntarily to satisfy common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations, through a jointly owned and democratically controlled company.

 

Multisectorality facilitates the legalization and formalization of various productive activities that would otherwise not be carried out, or would have to be carried out informally.  

 

Multisectorality also allows Minga's collaborators to do different things throughout their lives and even throughout the year, enriching their lives and skills through continuous learning, instead of locking the worker into a single specialization

 

By being an integral cooperative, Minga allows its members to have their autonomous projects (in economic and decision-making terms) within the cooperative in the most different activities. Collaborators can also organize among themselves to create systems that facilitate the resolution of individual problems, such as participation in fairs and markets, sharing or co-management of equipment "

 

If you are interested in being a collaborator and exploring the details with us, please get in contact! healingecocommunity (at) gmail.com