ABOUT US?

The GRUPPO SALINAS (legally approved on November 26, 2006) constitutes a corporate instance that represents the common and specific interests of the Salinera population, and of the different member institutions; It is the call to articulate processes and support local initiatives to strengthen the community work process.

It is a Technical Organism, capable of taking the parish and regional leadership jointly with the local governments in the aspects of gender equity, citizen participation, care and protection of the environment, generational balance, production and marketing. All this will be achieved with the intervention of public and private, trained and specialized actors who will share their knowledge with the local team and the participating communities – organizations, generating local capacities in the short and medium term, to continue with the task undertaken.

The “Salinas Group” intends to assume this task in a responsible, consensual and technical manner so that Salinas has a defined horizon and a promising future for the new generations, worthy of being imitated by other populations.

The Gruppo Salinas, as a corporate entity, is made up of six members who, in turn, are salt organizations dedicated to social and productive activities. The members of Gruppo Salinas are:

• SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVE SALINAS LTDA (COACSAL), Dedicated to parish microfinance, is the oldest of the organizations and the starting point for the productive activity of dairy transformation. COACSAL has about 2,000 members and has extended its service with a window in the San Luis de Pambil parish.
• ASSOCIATION “SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISANS TEXAL SALINAS” (TEXAL),Organization that brings together artisan women who work with their hands garments made of natural wool (sheep, alpaca, cotton) that are produced by the Hilandería Salinas. TEXAL has nn affiliated women who receive other services such as administrative and craft training, micro-financing, and meeting and reflection spaces.
• FOUNDATION OF PEASANT ORGANIZATIONS OF SALINAS (FUNORSAL), It is a second degree organization that is in charge of the organization, technical assistance and accompaniment of the base communities of the parish. It has productive companies that help finance its organizational and social activities.
• SALINAS YOUTH GROUP FOUNDATION, Entity created with the purpose of advising and promoting the creation of youth groups and activities in the parish. It is the organism that manages the tourist activities of Salinas for which it maintains a hotel, tourist office and operator. He also runs the mushroom drying factory and a forest farm.
• SALINAS SALESIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (FFSS), Its main actions focus on pastoral care and care for the education and health of children and youth in the parish. It manages and maintains the male and female youth homes with the support of productive companies such as the chocolate factory and the essential oil factory, among others that are in the experimental phase.
• COOPERATIVE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION "EL SALINERITO", It is the cooperative organization that manages the El Salinerito dairy factory and several farms for milk production and forestry. About 150 families are members of PRODUCOOP, the first and most successful rural agro-industrial company.