Blog
A selection of stories and thought pieces on communications and impact.
A roof of their own: Adana Union of Women’s Cooperatives
How a union of women's cooperatives in Adana turned a forgotten Ottoman bathhouse, and the work of more than a thousand women, into a business with a name of its own.
What no woman can do alone: Kırıkhan Women’s Cooperative
How fifteen women in Kırıkhan, Hatay, are turning the region's black carrot into something whose value finally stays in Kırıkhan — and proving, as Nermin Özer puts it, that a cooperative is really just ‘imece’, the old Anatolian tradition of collective work, institutionalised.
Reborn, like the bay laurel tree: Defne Women’s Cooperative
How a clothing-shop owner who "had nothing to do with farming" rebuilt Hatay's first women's cooperative from near-collapse and rubble, and turned an ancient olive, a bay-tree myth and the women around her into a business.
The women who brought back the blood orange: Mersinden
How a women's cooperative in Mersin revived a fruit on the edge of extinction and, in the process, rewrote what the women around it believed was possible.