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Significant role in social development

In ten years of activity, the National Cooperative Learning Service (Sescoop) has helped change the lives of thousands of Brazilians, though cooperative actions, programs and courses. Through these programs, courses, seminars, and training sessions, most of which are free-of-charge, have trained more than 1 million individuals.

Professional management, one of the most important trends of cooperatives, has boosted Sescoop's training activities throughout the country. More than 500 thousand employees, members and their family members have benefited from social promotion actions. The entities monitoring and supervision activities have involved nearly 400 thousand individuals in the entire country, through its state offices.

To support its projects, Sescoop has produced material on the various stages of development of a cooperative, from its foundation to the most advanced management processes. Material has also been produced for its social promotion initiatives. In all, more than 50 thousand manuals, books, and booklets are used by cooperatives, and their partner schools, in 13 sectors, Programs aimed at children and adolescents are also a good example of the work carried out by Sescoop towards social promotion. The Cooperjovem program, which promotes cooperative culture among school children, has involved, in the last 4 years alone, more than 200 thousand students, 4 thousand teachers, in 716 public schools and educational cooperatives.

As a pioneering initiative, Sescoop launched the 1st National Cooperjovem Program Essay Contest in 2007. This annual event has help consolidate the initiative among children. In its first edition, more than 15 thousand essays were submitted, from 192 educational institutions, both schools and cooperatives, to 14 Brazilian Cooperative System offices.

In order to awaken the sense of leadership and to develop future cooperative managers, Sescoop also launched in 2007 the Young Cooperative Leadership Program. Initially, the program involved 400 youngsters in 4 Brazilian states, and 42 instructors were trained.