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East Timor has eight new cooperatives

By September 11, 2020 2028
Secretary State of Cooperative meeting with some members of NGO in Dili Secretary State of Cooperative meeting with some members of NGO in Dili Photo File

Tempo Timor (Dili) - Elizário Ferreira was standing among 20 other new government members in front of the presidential palace on 23 June 2020 after being sworn in as the secretary of state for cooperatives in the cabinet led by prime minister Taur Matan Ruak. 

As state secretary Elizário Ferreira was given the big task to handle cooperatives. The trust that was given to him, proved to be right. Within 76 days, starting from the 23rd of June up to the 7th of September 2020, the state secretary managed to establish eight new cooperatives.  

“Within 70 days of my mandate already 8 new cooperatives have been established,” said Elizário Ferreira after meeting with the secretary of state of art and culture (SEAK), the secretary of state for equality and inclusion (SEII), and the secretary of state for youth and sport (SEJD) in Akait, on Monday 7 September 2020. 

He said that the secretary of state for art and culture provided training for 18 cooperatives members to improve their knowledge to ameliorate the management of the cooperatives, and continued supporting them. “We are waiting for the parliament to approve the state budget so we can help our people and recover the economy of this country, which still in the process of development for many years,” Elizário Ferreira said. 

East Timor has 214 cooperatives with 47.000 members that borrowed up to $18 million dollars from Credit Union.

‘The communities have their own initiatives already. And the state has its obligation to enforce and create conditions for people to build cooperatives, to secure institutional sustainability and also the economic sustainability of the cooperative itself,’ he said. 

Recently Elizário Ferreira said that the Credit Union cooperative functions already as an institution, while the other types of cooperatives are in the phase of preparing themselves to function as an institution as well, securing economic sustainability.

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