Meet Ana Silva, CRESAÇOR (Fajã de Baixo, Portugal)
Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - Summer 2021
Compendio :
CRESAÇOR – Regional Cooperative of Solidarity Economy was born in the framework of the Project to Fight Poverty – IDEA (1999-2005) and by the creation of a program for the development of socio-professional insertion companies in the Azores, having assumed legal personality in 2000 in the form of a Social Solidarity Cooperative.
It currently aims to pursue the following General Objectives:
Increase access to education, training and incubation of the workplace, within the framework of the Social EmploymentMarket and access to Microcredit;
Support the creation and sustainability of solidarity economy initiatives, promoting, valuing, marketing and distributing their products;
Provide economic and financial consultancy services with the objective of the sustainability and autonomy particularly of micro-enterprises of social inclusion.