{"id":7898,"date":"2022-09-08T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:14:19","slug":"bericht-vom-besuch-der-frauen-von-cecosesola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/archive\/bericht-vom-besuch-der-frauen-von-cecosesola\/","title":{"rendered":"Report From our visit with Women from Cecosesola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7835\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/?attachment_id=7835\" class=\"wp-image-7835\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Photos from our visit with women from Cecosesola <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7837\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220829_182618-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/?attachment_id=7837\" class=\"wp-image-7837\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Photos from our visit with the women from Cecosesola<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 29th of August, we W.I.E&amp;F had the pleasure of hosting Ana Maria and Ana Mildred from Cecosesola (Central Cooperativa de Servicios Sociales del Estado Lara), a non-hierarchical solidary of cooperatives in Venezuela at our space in Hermannstr 22. They were in Germany for an exchange programme that takes place every two years and this is the third time they are having an exchange with Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also participated in our International conference that took place from the 4th to the 7th of August. The reason for this meeting was not only to visit with each other but to also exchange experiences in our fields of work. The meeting was arranged by our good network from Ulenkrug who among others were hosting them After a few good laughs, we were able to listen to them with the help of three translators who translated from English to Spanish and vice-versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cecosesola is 54 years old, born out of necessity. They work in the cultivation of food and its distribution. Providing the food that they cultivate to the poorer communities at a lower price than the current market Price. They have 26 selling points with the major parts being open from Wednesday to Saturday which makes distribution the most significant part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They provide Health care services in which a Health Centre was built in 2007. For this to be realised, they were able to get an interest-free loan from a cooperative since they could not afford a bank loan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p>They also offer funeral services which were founded in 1967 as their first big project. It was created to give dignity to the poor. The cooperative also operates its coffin production. Members pay small contributions here every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is important to note is that the reason the co-op started was to provide services to the poor and was born out of necessity. The cooperative offers its services to 140,000 families in the cities, their main objective is to be in solidarity with the Poor. They also invite the community to be part of their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the day-to-day running of Cecosesola, they have a lot of plenary meetings (more than 3000) per year. This is done to ensure that there is open communication and that everyone is kept abreast of what new organisational decisions have been made. Important to note is; that one doesn&#8217;t have to take part in all meetings. They also have smaller groups for every service they provide e.g. Health care, food distribution etc. The work also rotates but also depends on one&#8217;s abilities and interests e.g Administrative work, noting that there is no hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of Cecosesola do not live together but derive their livelihood from the activities done by the cooperative. All the money collected from the different Services provided is divided equally among all members working for the cooperative as a sort of Salary\/income every week. In their working together, they try to educate themselves working together. This also leads to all feelings of and carrying that sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of our conversation, we found their work very encouraging and also a challenge for us W.I.E&amp;F .We have been in existence for 20 years, and we look forward to also celebrating our 50th Anniversary. With the formal part out of the way, we were able to share a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>F\u00fcr mehr Informationen<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/netz-bb.netz.coop\/index.php?id=18\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/netz-bb.netz.coop\/index.php?id=18<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"| CECOSESOLA | BUILDING HERE AND NOW THE WORLD WE YEARN FOR\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZoSIZqa7LI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am 29. August hatten wir, Women in Exile &amp; Friends, das Vergn\u00fcgen, Ana Maria und Ana Mildred von Cecosesola (Central cooperativa de Servicios sociales del Estado Lara), einer nicht-hierarchischen Genossenschaft in Venezuela, in unseren R\u00e4umen in der Hermannstra\u00dfe 22 zu empfangen. Sie waren im Rahmen eines Austauschprogramms, das alle zwei Jahre stattfindet, zum dritten Mal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-archive","category-austausch","category-documentation"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}