INACOOP AND MIDES seek to strengthen them so that they achieve greater productivity
The National Institute of Cooperatives (INACOOP), together with the Ministry of Social Development (Mides) are working together on a strengthening policy for more than 250 cooperative workers throughout the country that today carry out recycling tasks.
The objective is not only to achieve better conditions in a difficult area such as recycling, but also to have a commitment to the environment, which will enable many cities in the country to have a clean circuit and obtain recycling of both cardboard such as plastics, and at the same time “have added value in their work,” said Martín Fernández, president of INACOOP.
As reported by Fernández, these cooperatives are given “all the tools so that they can improve their performance through training, as well as in everything related to the management of a cooperative to add value and achieve greater productivity.” In other cases, INACOOP also helps with financing or support to obtain a motorcycle for the clean circuit or to gain access to tools or machinery that allow them to better market what they recycle.
Currently, they are working together with the Ministry of Social Development, in helping 200 cooperative workers, but they assured that the policy will have a greater impact “for thousands of citizens”, since as the dumps close to the sky open “more cooperatives are going to be incorporated”.
Meanwhile, Cecilia Sena, National Director of Social Development of MIDES and representative of the Rivera Recyclers Cooperative, explained that the objective is to promote the productive area of the associative groups, so that they can access opportunities and autonomy and at the same time, reduce the gaps of economic inequality.
“Our role, together with INACOOP, is to carry out social support, from the beginning of the creation of the cooperative, to financial support in matters that have to do with information to be able to access and have formalized this type of instrument,” Indian.
He said that the Ministry of Social Development, from a social point of view, accompanies these cooperatives through training to generate knowledge tools, among them, on environmental issues to raise awareness among cooperative workers and that can also be reproduced in the society.
“The idea is that this work value chain can have an impact on these associative groups and, therefore, on the environmental issue of our country. The objective is to be committed to the environmental objective, but also to the sorting cooperatives that we accompany weekly with social and economic work teams, which carry out a job that generates that autonomy that is necessary for us for social development,” Sena explained. .
And he added that for them it is “substantial” that citizens know the work together with INACOOP and know that the State provides these support tools to these groups whose essential objective is work and social development.
