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Laleia, June 18, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His Excellency the Secretary of State for Cooperatives (SEKoop), Eng. Ars\u00e9nio Pereira da Silva, M.Agr., officially inaugurated the Directive and Fiscal Council structures of the RARAWAKO, HALIMAHON, HEFAM, and HUDEF Credit Unions in the Parochial Hall of Laleia, Administrative Post of Laleia, Manatuto Municipality, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before becoming cooperatives, these began as Savings and Loan Groups facilitated by World Vision Timor-Leste (WVTL) under the Climate Resilience for All program initiated in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his speech, SEKoop emphasized that cooperatives are a strong means to boost grassroots economic growth and encouraged other communities to engage in the cooperative movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCongratulations to all who took office today. From now on, cooperatives must be taken seriously. Those who have become members and received funding should treat the cooperative as their primary source of income to support household finances and develop the cooperative itself. When everyone is involved, even during crises, the base economy will remain stable,\u201d stressed SEKoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President of the Manatuto Municipal Authority, Lu\u00eds In\u00e1cio Henrique Fernandes, challenged the new leaders to manage and grow their cooperatives well, ensuring benefits to members and the community. He also recommended SEKoop to continue monitoring their day-to-day activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cooperative presidents requested SEKoop to continue providing training in accounting, management, and finance, so they can lead their cooperatives towards long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently:
\u2022 HALIMAHON Credit Union has 26 members (25 women, 1 man),
\u2022 RARAWAKO has 27 members (24 women, 3 men),
\u2022 HEFAM has 18 members (9 women, 9 men) from Uatulari,
\u2022 HUDEF has 16 members (7 women, 9 men) from Ossoala, Vemasse, Baucau Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendees included representatives of the Municipal Authorities of Baucau and Manatuto, SEKoop\u2019s Director-General Eng. Olderico Lopes, the WVTL National Director, Administrators of Vemasse and Laleia Posts, the Parish Priest of Laleia, the PNTL Commander of Laleia, and community leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laleia, June 18, 2025 His Excellency the Secretary of State for Cooperatives (SEKoop), Eng. Ars\u00e9nio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secoop.gov.tl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}