Tagum Cooperative gains more awards

Tagum Cooperative (TC) in Tagum City (Davao del Norte, Philippines) continues to gather more honors as one of the country’s leading co-ops. It is also one of the 15 partner-co-ops in the GE Project in the Philippines that was implemented by the Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF) from 2010-2012, supported by the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC). 

N. Pereyras

In October 2012 in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, during the 11th “National Cooperative Summit” of the Philippine co-op sector, the government body Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) honored Ms Norma R. Pereyras, Chairperson of TC and Chairperson (first female) of Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC), as 2012’s “Most Outstanding Cooperative Leader” for both Region XI (Davao Region) and national levels. CDA also gave TC the “Gawad Parangal” Award for 2012 as “Most Outstanding Cooperative” for large-scale category for regional (Mindanao) and national levels; and “Best in Cooperative Solidarity and Partnership” Award. TC also got the main award as “Most Outstanding Cooperative GAD-FEP Implementor” for 2011, given in 2012 by MASS-SPECC Cooperative Development Center (MASS-SPECC), a federation of Mindanao co-ops; and the “Top Aflatoun Cooperative Award” for 2011, given in 2012 by the National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO), a Philippine co-op federation, and Aflatoun. For the Aflatoun award, TC bested a hundred other Aflatoun program co-op implementers in the Philippines for its outstandingly active and well-supported implementation of the program that seeks to teach children social values, and rights and responsibilities, together with basic financial education.