PRÓ-VIDA Cooperative: how and why?
PRÓ-VIDA Cooperative: how and why?
As a natural consequence of the human being’s development, whose consciousness is in continuous movement of expansion, cooperation arises – an idea that permeates PRÓ-VIDA’s activities. All the movement generated here takes place through the cooperative and voluntary action of the participants.
Integrated in an orderly manner on a solid and structured basis, people work in the same sense and direct the energy generated to a common goal: the building of a Much Better World. This movement is organized in four bases; the Cooperative is one of them.
The Cooperative seeks to meet and bring benefits specifically to issues that relate to the basic human needs, such as food, health care, acquisition of products and services etc. In order to achieve this, the department is made up of several work fronts, structured in the following sectors:
– Friend-to-Friend Agreement: this sector establishes partnerships with PRÓ-VIDA cooperative participants who wish to offer their products and services to other cooperative members.
– External Agreements: these are partnerships established with companies from the most diverse segments of the market, providing benefits for the cooperative member.
– Health Professionals: it is a Cooperative project that offers to all PRÓ-VIDA participants a register of cooperative members who work professionally in the health care area.
– Supply Units: this sector manifests itself through collaborators who join together in their regions, working in conjunction with the various existing units, to make collective purchases, offer products from friends and even goods from their own production. They share in an integrated and collaborative way the knowledge, efforts and resources.
– Telephony: partnership with a telephone company that serves all interested cooperative members.
– Restaurant: the cooperative manages the Headquarters Restaurant (São Paulo, Brazil) with all the legal and administrative support, always aiming to revert the benefits of this merger to its cooperative members.
By expanding consciousness, the PRÓ-VIDA participant seeks to apply the knowledge received in all spheres of their life. Their performance at work, in family relationships and in society changes. Each being is different and unique. Here people are united offering the best they have, together, in cooperation and for the benefit of all.
Everyone helps everyone, to see growth.”
