| Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements |
LA VIVIENDA: ESFUERZO COLECTIVO Y ORGANIZADO: POBLADORES Y EDUCACION NO. 2.
PRODUCED BY: CENTRO OPERACIONAL DE VIVIENDA Y POBLAMIENTO, A.C. (COPEVI), MEXICO, 1983.
AVAILABLE FROM: COPEVI, TLALOC 40-2, COL. TLAXPANA, DELG. MIGUEL HIDALGO, 11370 MEXICO, D.F., MEXICO.
NUMBER OF PAGES: 36 AND 38
ESTRUCTURA INTERNA DE UNA COOPERATIVA DE VIVIENDA is a well- illustrated comic cartoon booklet which uses a dialogue format between several co-operative members to discuss some of the most important aspects of housing co-operatives, such as what happens at a general assembly, what are the duties of the administrative committee and what are the responsibilities and roles of the members of education, finance and discipline sub-committees.
LA VIVIENDA ESFUERZO COLECTIVO Y ORGANIZADO is the second in the popular education booklet series. It explains the importance of getting together and working collectively for people of low incomes, in the effort to improve their housing conditions. The dialogue between a group of neighbours in a community shows how they identified their problems, compared them with those of other residents in the community and, in this way, began to realize the common causes of their community's problems. As a result of this experience, they reached the decision to form a cooperative. The booklet then addresses the question of what is a co- operative. It gives details of the requirements to be a member of a co-operative and the rights and duties of the membership.
These booklets are suitable for co-operative members and can be used as a supporting tool for popular educators in their training programmes with community groups.