COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT

MATI’s integrated community development work has a particular emphasis on cooperative development of the community people, particularly organizing the women members of the smallholder farmers’ families as a key strategy for people-led sustainable development. By the end of 2024, the cooperative has 1855 member organized in 52 village-based groups and 12 urban-groups under Mymensingh City Corporations. The Cooperative groups are under two Upazila-based registered cooperatives in Mymensingh Sadar and Nakla. The members have a savings of BDT 90M while their credit outstanding is more than BDT190M where MATI has a stake BDT100M. The money is used for establishing small enterprises by the women with supports from their family members for same food production, crop storage, chicken-duck rearing, cattle rearing, fish farming, agro-based small business, and other income-generating activities.
During the year 2024, the women cooperative is more organized with their strengthened leadership quality as well as increased motivation and awareness towards their self-help sustainable development. The cooperative helped the women to do income generating activities with an additional income which is contributing to ending up their poverty, the family level food security & nutrition, health, water and sanitation, education, etc. as well as their empowerment in the family and the society.