Significant African Led Cooperatives

Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) – Kenya

African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Association (ACCOSCA) – Africa

Savings and Cooperative Credit Organisations that are active in Kenya and other parts of East Africa

Over $5 billion in reserves

Lend almost exclusively for business purposes

Kenya has 7th most successful cooperative financial sector globally

Cooperative Home Care Associates:

Founded: 1985 

Significance: Largest worker cooperative in the USA Formed to provide health care at home. 

Membership: 2,000 mainly African-American and Latina women  

Turnover: $40 mn. 

Cooperative Jackson:

A programme of economic democracy and self-determination in Jackson Mississippi which began in 2007 with the publication of the Jackson–Kush Plan

Village Financial Cooperative:

A credit union to be set up in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2019, which will use its funds to support people wishing to establish their own cooperative businesses. 
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