October 6th was the final day of training for our new cohort of Each One Teach One, Vancity’s financial literacy training team. The outgoing and super enthusiastic group of employees were being trained up to provide the absolute basics in financial literacy to communities who are typically shut out, for various reasons, from obtaining this type of help and support. Among them they represented 15 different languages and individuals who specified a desire to work with other communities such as Aboriginal, single-mothers, women escaping violence and youth.
Here, we're sharing stories, pictures and ideas about what we think is possible when we co-operate and what it means to each of us to belong to co-operatives.
Read about what belonging to co-operatives means to the people in your community on the co-op week homepage, then submit your own post about your favorite co-ops, your most memorable co-op story, why you belong to co-ops, what you love about them, what you think could improve about them heck you can even share what drives you nuts about co-ops! (make sure to tag your blog post!)