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Ecology and Social issues: the 2 branches of La Louve, a Parisian cooperative supermarket
La Louve is a cooperative and participative supermarket which has been able to reproduce in Paris the method of the New York Park Slope Food Coop born in 1973. If you want to know more about this supermarket in Brooklyn you can watch this video. The founders of La Louve
Social entrepreneurship in France
The Paris region has taken many initiatives to improve social and economic life in its area. For some time now, it has been paying close attention to products designed to improve short distribution channels For example, the region, municipalities and towns are ready to invest in projects that enable residents
Meet the “Cafés Joyeux” in France !
Les Cafés Joyeux (Happy Coffee Houses), where 70% of the employees have Down’s syndrome or cognitive disorders, has been awarded the social entrepreneurship prize by the Boston Consulting Group in France in 2022! The founder’s idea is clear: to make disability visible and encourage encounters. To do this, he wants
Prisoners create art and bake coffee in support of female victims of violence
A project of the ‘Art Angel’ Foundation envisages opening of an art and training centre and a bakery shop for healthy baked products in the Pazardzhik prison of Bulgaria. Тhe profit will be used in support of victims of violence and disadvantaged people and the occupational therapy will help the
Project ‘Garden of Wonders’
‘Garden of Wonders’ is a project of ‘St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker’ Foundation in Dobrich. It employs people with intellectual disabilities and aims at their socialization. In the enterprise they are active in real work environment where they do not feel isolated and left out. And the demand for their locally-grown
Another Bulgarian community enterprise – more social benefits
‘Flower City’ greenhouse in Gotse Delchev Municipality, Bulgaria handles landscaping of public spaces, yards of municipal, health and social establishments, alleys as well as landscaping around buildings, children’s and sports grounds. The greenhouse also offers flowers and plants for sale to citizens and companies. The community enterprise employs 31 people