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CDF Online Auction,

Get bidding now!

Celebrate Co-op week and support CDF.

Take a look at some of the amazing items up for grabs and bid on the CDF online auction now!

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Canada Celebrates!

#CoopWeek2013

Share your Co-op Week celebrations on Twitter!

How did Canadians celebrate 2012 IYC?

Watch this 5 minute retrospective video on this very exciting year.

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Quick 10

This month's quick 10 profile, Roméo Cormier, has a very touching and personal reason for returning to Rwanda.

CCA Year in Review
2012-2013

Hot off the press! Catch up on what is happening with CCA's international development program with "The Face of Development."

Build a Better World

Help the Co-operative Development Foundation continue the legacy of the UN 2012 International Year of

Co-operatives. Together we

WILL

build a better world.

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Volume 7 Number 8, October 16, 2013

A week full of co-op celebrations!

It's Co-op Week! There is so much going on this week we thought we would devote Dispatch to keeping you informed about the weeks highlights;

Julius Turyahebwa, from the Uganda Co-operative Alliance (UCA), is on a speaking tour of Western Canada. To learn more about farmers in Uganda building
co-operative paths out of poverty, watch the short video below "Co-operating for Change."

The CDF online auction is live! Check out the amazing items up for grabs and start bidding now, click here.

Where in the World is CCA? Take a look at a snapshot of CCA's current international projects around the world and see for yourself how co-operation among
co-operatives really works.

Co-operating for Change

Julius Turyahebwa, is shown above in Bweyele, Uganda, talking to co-op members about conservation farming. A farmer at heart, Julius is eager to see what the Prairies have to offer during his time in Canada and to talk about the work CCA does in Uganda. Follow his Canadian journey on Twitter or Facebook with #FollowJulius.

To learn more about this CCA/UCA project watch this short video by CCA volunteer Jenn Smith Nelson.

Where in the world is CCA?

Co-op Week is about celebrating how much Canadian Co-operatives have collectively helped to build this country and

to recognize their continuing contributions at home and abroad.

Click on the photo above to browse through a snapshot of CCA's current international projects and see how we are all working together to build a better world.

Join in the conversation and feel free to share.

This publication is undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada.