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Manfred Rekowski, President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, about the benefits of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.
It all started with a pious idea
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen is renowned as the co-founder of the co-operative finance and banking business that bears his name. His Christian roots have…
The long road to World Cultural Heritage
The Unesco preserves, what people developed. Since 2016 also the idea of cooperatives is part of the World Cultural Heritage.
When profits aren’t everything
On the contribution of Christian social reformers to the co-operative system – and how this has developed up to the present day.
Little money, great happiness
In Rwanda credit unions help to find ways out of poverty and they offer a forum for reconciliation.
The local church congregation as cooperative
Some food for thought.
“We are following the same procedure”
The Bank for Church and Diaconia (“KD-Bank”) based in Dortmund is committed to Christian values and is organised as a co-operative – just…
The japanese Raiffeisen
It was in the year that Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen died, that a man was born who walked in his footsteps: Toyohiko Kagawa (1888–1960).