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Donations are an integral part of the support that Copra gives to numerous associations, contributing to cultural, sports and social initiatives in the local territory.
At present, CO.PR.A scrl has the following stable partnerships:
- with the voluntary organization called “Cardiopath Child Association”, active in the province of Piacenza;
- with the voluntary organization called “Assofa”, active in the province of Piacenza;
- with the local AUSER association active in Piacenza, for cooperation in socially useful activities for elderly people;
- with ActionAid International, for the sponsorship of children living in poor Countries;
- with the local health authority in Piacenza, to which Copra has recently donated a machine for the Pediatric ward and a defibrillator for the hospital in Fiorenzuola;
- with the Pubblica Assistenza association, active in Piacenza, to which the Copra workers have recently donated an ambulance for the transport of ill and invalid people;
- with several social cooperatives (belonging to the A and B category), specialized in the care of elderly and ill or invalid people. These cooperatives can count both on qualified partner workers and volunteer members.
Among Copra’s range of activities in this field, we must mention the company’s commitment in supporting those producers who work on the fair trade market.
In many centres where Copra prepares meals for its catering services, the company buys on the so-called “parallel” market numerous fair trade products.
These products not only present a guarantee of certified quality, but also have an added ethical value by assuring the defence of the human, social and environmental rights of producers in the South of the world.
The fair trade market aims at increasing the distribution of such products, avoiding intermediaries and local wholesalers, in order to relax the hold of the international market where the prices of products coming from the Southern Countries of the world are decided in the North.
The creation of an alternative market for these products is a meaningful step towards the formation of commercial laws that may contribute to liberalization processes in the producers’ Countries and to peer to peer relations between producers and buyers.
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