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Social Cooperative
Chechło, ul. Hutnicza 22, 32-310 Klucze
tel./fax 32 647 21 50
e-mail: biuro@opokas.pl www.opokas.pl
WARSZAWA
Powiat olkuski
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KATOWICE
Distance from Klucze :
Kraków – ok. 45 km
Katowice – ok. 50 km
Warszawa – ok. 270 km
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GMINA
KLUCZE
KRAKÓW
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Klucze District
Area: 119 km2
Population: 15 000
15 villages
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Main advantages of Klucze community are (+):
 natural values („Błędowska desert”)
 geographical location
 active people
But It also struggles with some
problems (-)
 Large distance from urbanised areas
 Unemployment (16%)
 High percentage of diabled people (20%)
To make good of Klucze’s
potential and solve local
problems we decided to
cooperate!
In 2005
We have started to work intensively for the the local
community, with the following objectives:
 activation of unemployed & disabled people
 local development
 actions against poverty
At the beginning our
partnership was informal!
Until now we have implemented
together 10 projects
in which 250 unemployed people
have found jobs.
2009
We signed a formal partnership
agreement for the development of
our small country!
Partnership Leaders
Klucze Community and it’s unitSocial Help Center (OPS)
Labour Office (PUP)
Christian Charity Association
Association for the Sustainable SocioEconomic Development „KLUCZ” („KEY”)
All partners implement projects that involve
socially and professionally the unemployed.
They are introducing modern methods of
working with long-term unemployed people
(mini-coaching).
In order to ensure that our actions provide permanent employment, we
thought…
People need to be given a fishing rod
NOT a FISH
BUT ALSO you have to HELP them
with creating Fishery
and the motto
ONLY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT GUARANTEES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Muhammad Yunus
During our collaboration other partners have joined us,
such as schools, Educational Forum (ngo’s network),
Voluntary Fire Brigades, private enterprises and active
citizens.
Crowning achievement of our
partnership was the setting up the
Social Cooperative „Opoka”
Social co-operatives was set up by two entities
Association for
the sustainable
socio-economic
development
„KLUCZ”
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Christian
Charity
Association
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Other partners supported the cooperative- not financially, but
with other available resources. A company that initially did
not have any subsidy was established.
OPS – commissioned food support for
customers (poorest municipalities)
OUR FIRST CLIENT
PUP- prepared the unemployed for
gastronimic trainings
Association – shared available managers
Commune – lent a vehicle for food
distribution
Primary School – provided an office
Our first residence was renovated and
financed by private entrepreneur
motto
„(…) the highest level in a golden ladder of charity:
prevent poverty teaching professions, giving someone a
job(…)”
Majmonides, about charity, (XII century)
The main objective was to
restore (reintegrate) people who were put
at risk of social exclusion into the
labour market by conducting joint
enterprise and to allow the unemployed a
professional activation.
Today OPOKA is a well
established business entity that
employs 50 people, including
80% of disabled people who
have learned the profession of
cook, waiter and kitchen help.
OPOKA workers preparing Easter Breakfast – April 2012
Kitchen in Chechło
Something nutricious and delicious
Restaurant Opoka in Klucze
RESTAURANT OPOKA in Klucze
OPOKA provides training
services for the unemployed
and institutions involved with
services on labour market.
Besides teaching the profession of the disabled people, there are
also some workshops of social competence and medical
rehabilitation.
Feeding the Poor programme
Feeding adults
and their families
in 2010-2013
commissioned by the
Social Help Centre
in Klucze,
Including pizza service,
food preparation and
delivery as well as dinner
for more than 300
people in seven spots in
the community Klucze OPS customers
Risk of poverty in the European Union (percentage, total
population and children, 2005)
We have reconstructed and equipped a new building by
ourselves
In summary the effects of local
partnerships are:
 The first social cooperative set up by two legal persons in Poland
 After 1 year of our activity we had income of 1 200 000 PLN
(about 300 000 EUR)
 50 work places for people in a particularly difficult situation on the labor
market
 Social services for the local market
 A stable source of funding for local develompent projects
 We do not multiply financial actions financed by UE in the arena of our
district
The creation of a wide offer for the
unemployed: through mental support to
working places
Consistent local and social politics
Thank you for your attention!