Community

Coop Adriatica collaborates with the Food Bank Foundation that
carries out, on the last Saturday of November, a collection of non perishable food products. These are donated by customers and given to organisations that assist needy persons locally. In 2005 the collection was carried out at 97 Coop Adriatica stores and produced a total of 195.918 kilograms of foods, with a value of approximately €657.000.

Coop Lombardy has developed with the Caritas Ambrosiana a service ‘due mani in più (two hands more)’ to deliver shopping and company to the homes of the elderly, invalids and handicapped people.

Coop Adriatica publishes an annual list of voluntary service associations and social co-operatives, the ‘C’Entro Anch’io’. The aim is to identify and to support projects in favour of infants and youth.

The project ‘Agua Para dois Irmãos’ assists in the construction of approximately 1.000 family cisterns for rainwater capture in the municipality of Dois Irmãos, Brazil. Financed by the ANCC/Coop Italy and undertaken by ONG Toscaza UCODEP, the project was started in September 2005 and will achieve a total number of 1.000 cisterns by the end of 2007.

Coop Adriatica has provided assistance for co-operatives damaged by the Tsunami in Sri Lanka, with a focus on the Districts of Hambantota and Kalutara. Partners in this intervention are the ONG UCODEP of d’Arezzo and GVC of Bologna. The project was started in May 2005; the date planned for completion is June 2007.

Coop Adriatica and its associates have become active in the international campaign ‘Make Poverty History’, selling the campaign’s white bracelets in all its hypermarkets and in approximately fifty supermarkets. To date more than €25,000 has been raised for this cause.

Over the past two years, many thousands of members of Coop Adriatica have supported, a health centre build by ‘Médecins sans Frontières’ (MSF) in Cuemba/Angola (Africa). Altogether the members of the co-operative have distributed the equivalent of €800,000. When added to the donations from the members of the ‘Coop Consumatori Nordest’ and the ‘Coop Estense’, the total raised comes to €1.3 million.