Helping poor farmers in the southeast
improve their farm income
Some of the poorest areas of the United States are in the South.
It is there that the Federation of Southern Cooperatives puts its
UCA funds to good use. Following are some examples:
In Georgia, the Federation has helped
women in south Georgia form a group which grows peppers and adds
value to the product by processing the peppers into pepper sauce,
which they are now marketing.
In Mississippi, the Federation helped develop
a state-of-the-art Packing Shed for the Indian Spring Farmers Association,
whose farmers are now able to package and ship their produce throughout
the region.
Throughout the South, the Federation provides
technical, educational, marketing, and legal assistance to individual
family farmers and to existing and developing cooperatives and credit
unions.
Southern Alternatives, FSC is helping this
south Georgia co-op purchase its own pecan processing facility.
The facility will be ideal for small pecan growers and will create
jobs and economic growth for the community. FSC is also helping
to identify and secure international and domestic markets for the
co-op.
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The ICA Group is working with Viet-Aid Community Development
Corporation in the greater Boston area to help the local Vietnamese
immigrant population. In general, the population they are serving
is hard working and entrepreneurial but has limited English skills.
They typically have jobs that pay only five to seven dollars an
hour, and they have little chance for advancement. cape horn boats
The ICA Group is helping them create Win-Win Cleaning Service,
a commercial office cleaning company that will employ 49 members
of the Vietnamese community. ICA did a feasibility study and determined
that an opportunity existed for a marketing co-op consisting of
a number of small, independent micro-enterprises. The co-op will
be jointly owned and controlled by these individual businesses and
the project partners. This will allow Win-Win to pay higher salaries
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But The ICA Group didn’t just stop there. ICA continued to
work with Viet-AID to conduct cleaning and business skills training
sessions, and will continue to provide support to Win-Win through
its start-up and initial growth stages.
Just as important, ICA views this as a replicable model for bringing
micro-enterprises to scale.
