The 1st Negros Occidental Cooperative Congress will be held today at the Balay Kalinungan, University of St. La Salle and the 28th Provincial Cooperative Day Celebration, on October 20, also at the same veneu.

About 5,000 participants from more than 300 cooperative groups in Negros Occidental are expected to attend. Speakers include Mayor Evelio Leonardia; Sugar Regulatory Administration chief Rafael Coscolluela; and Antonio Meloto, executive director of Gawad Kalinga.

The gathering, themed "Building A Sustainable Negrense Society, The Cooperative Way," features various cooperative issues like Cooperative Taxation, Inter-cooperative Trade, Food Safety and Sovereignty, Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperatives in Rural Development and Cooperative as a Civil Society Organization.

Activities include sports events, group clinics, jobs fair, medical and dental operations and exhibit. These are spearheaded by the La Salle Brothers Employees Community Cooperative whose aim is to strengthen unity among cooperatives in the province to facilitate cooperative education and formulate development and legislative agenda for the local cooperative sector.*

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