With a view to strengthening the cooperative and interdependent youth organization, the Second National Meeting of Social, Solidarity and People’s Economic Youth was held last Tuesday, August 29, at Korini Malar Cooperation Cultural Center.
The work was carried out day in three axes; Environment, types and contrasts and youth work.
In this context, ESSyP sought to contribute to the development of democratic spaces and the creation of a youth agenda; Exchange of experiences in the field. In addition, the proposals were discussed from a multidimensional perspective, where people’s material needs were taken into account along with social cohesion, responsibility for others and the environment.
Alexandre Roig, President of INAES; Valeria Muduperia, from the Cultural Center for Cooperation; Alejandro Russo, member of the INAES Board of Directors, Milagros Moya, INAES Compliance and Inspection Director, Claudio Soumoulou of the Nodos Foundation, with representatives from institutions across the country.
During the opening, Alejandro Russo emphasized “stimulating the participation of young people and starting the process of including them in matters of leadership. We are convinced that they are the seed that should lead to reciprocity in a sustainable way for many years”.
For her part, Valeria Muduberia said: “Those who believe that the social and popular economy are tools for social change and the expansion of rights, today we see a world where young people face the most pressing problem of unemployment and underemployment. Today many and many young women, apart from this problem, are sometimes looking for work. , do so dangerously from socioeconomics and popularity, so that this work should be transformed into work that is accessible to labor rights.
Claudio Soumoulou from the Nodos Foundation pointed out: “It gives me great pleasure to see the commitment here of those who want to participate and change what is happening everywhere. It encourages you to keep betting, to keep moving forward, and to keep building this partnership and mutualism that we are all a part of.
“This is the second meeting that we have held, and it is very important to encourage young people as cooperative and mutual political subjects in the country, and this means creating training processes of young people and identifying and acting on the agendas they create. As future leaders in this field,” said INAES President Alexander Roic. And he added Said: “You (toward the youth) are the political subject of the only viable and sustainable long-term plan for meaningful production. Don’t just raise collective flags, be sure that they represent the horizon of real change in society, far from abstract discourses and closer to their territories and the possibilities of changing them. We Welcome, welcome to this journey together”
For Stella Céspedes, representative of Faecap, the meeting is “an opportunity to try to share what other confederations are doing and apply it in Mendoza. In Mendoza, youth participation is very low, that’s why we’re here, so they can see what’s happening in other provinces, to do ours. can
Alexis Narabuena from FAMUCH, and treasurer of Mutual Nehuen, the Lgtb collective’s first mutual, felt that “participating in the meeting is very important as a way to show the regional development we have.” As Lgtb collectives, we believe that the socioeconomic field is the most comfortable for us to organize ourselves in cooperative and mutual organizations and to put public policy issues on the agenda.
Carlos Monzón, representative of the central region of CAM, “considered it very important to create this second meeting, which allowed us to reduce the distances, to have the presence of young people from different provinces and to see them regularly through the national gatherings. . The socio-economic sector of mutual assistance, solidarity, training and training We are delighted that Seed continues to shape these values through youth.
In the afternoon, the young participants were divided into three work commissions. There they exchanged experiences of their companies, regionally and sector wise with their respective brands. They also examined youth participation in organizations and made proposals.
At the end they shared the results with over 300 participants. Two representatives per group presented the results: Belen Lopez Iglesias – Mutual Estudiantil Tucumán (CAM); Sophia Franco – Southern Patagonia Mutual (FAMUCH); Camila Massa Panella – Zhukov (Fekovida Youth); Tamara Gallardo – Mutual Amazol (FAMUCH); Silvina Schneider – Santa Fe Road Worker Mutual (Brigadier Lopez Mutual) and Sabrina Baeza – MUTRALA Mendoza (FEMUM).
On different topics, they agreed on the need to strengthen the culture of cooperation and reciprocity in education systems to encourage girls and boys to grow with this knowledge in primary school and to return to cooperative organizations in secondary school. And professionals at mutuals and universities can learn about and act on the social economy. In short, creating co-operatives should attract the attention of the youth and break the myth that “you are an employee or an independent professional”.
The lack of vision of the youth in the organizations was also raised and a way must be reached to give them a bigger place in the leadership of the organizations. These youth meetings are held frequently in different areas.
There was a commitment to formalize all the results in one document, to gain more space in ESSyP, to add more value, and to continue working to continue the cooperative and mutual development of the country.
