Natalie´s session

Natalie explained: What is a cooperative.The way of making it.It is a way of working with classmates.How to value things because we price the products.

How to choose members, responsabilities and name

The responsabilities are chosen by voting: president, secretary and treasurer.Peers suggested names like “Tower”, but finally we decided: “Pequeños manitas” (small handy people).We are all members.

The assemly

During meetings we talked about all the important things that we had to do.Like: small investment of three €.Ideas for products and time planning.

Statutes

Our statutes are written up in an assembly.All of them are important butsome main points are:Selecting products we will sell and deciding upon the rights and obligations of all members.

http://blog.educastur.es/mikel/estatutos-dela-cooperativa/

Selecting our logo

Children and the teachers decided and created the logo

Production process

We choose that we would do:Picnic bags, canvas bags, greeting cards, magnets and plaster letters.Material was purchased with the initial money.We worked and we had fun creating them.

Market - Responsabilities

The adults organized the market:The date, time, location of the job and the organization:-when we had to sell.-who was in charge of advertising.-who looks after the stock.-and who was the cashier.

Profits

What did we do with the money?We gave 10% to UNICEF.We made a joint activity that was going to eat at Mc Donald's.We still had money left over.