Klimax plus

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• Klimax plus
• Social Cooperative of Limited Liability of the
  3rd Mental Health Sector of Attica Prefecture
• 30, Evmolpidon St. 11854 Athens tel [phone]
  fax [phone]
• koispe_at_klimaka.org.gr

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• What is Social Capital
• ".the rules, norms, obligations, reciprocity and
  trust embedded in social
• relations, social structures and societys
  institutional arrangements which enable members
  to achieve their individual and community
  objectives."
• World Bank (2000)
• it is widely agreed that social capital
  facilitates mutually beneficial collective action.

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• Social Cooperatives
• The term cooperative means an autonomous
  association of persons united voluntarily to meet
  their common economic, social and cultural needs
  and aspirations through jointly owned and
  democratically controlled enterprise.
• An enterprise is an organisation that
  commercially provides products or services in a
  competitive market place.

• Social Economy
• The Social Economy can be defined as that part of
  the economy which is neither private nor public,
  but consists of constituted organisations, with
  voluntary members and boards of directors or
  management committees, undertaking activities for
  local benefit.

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• The European Profile
• In the European Union there are about 300.000
  cooperatives, providing 4.8 million jobs. They
  exist in all member states and in accession or
  candidate countries. At the same time they
  inflyence the every day life of more than 140
  million of cititzens who are members in
  cooperatives
• All cooperatives act in the economic interest of
  their members, while some of them in addition
  devote activities to achieve social or
  environmental objectives in their members and in
  a wider community interest.

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• Mental Health Patients
• Mental health patients is the single most
  difficult group to be professionally reintegrated
  to the labor market.
• International experience indicates that there is
  a recovery gap between therapy and
  rehabilitation.
• WHO defines mental health as a state of well
  being in which the individual is content with
  himself and his accomplishments and not the mere
  absence of mental illness.
• Added Value
• Social cooperatives contribute to combat social
  exclusion since their general objective is not
  only reintegration of people from vulnerable
  social groups (homeless, addicts, inmates, etc.)
  but also training and socialization

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• REQUIREMENT FOR ESTABLISMENT
• Feasibility permit from the ministry of Health
  and Social Solidarity
• ABOUT SOCIAL COOPERATIVES
• Social Cooperatives are Legal Entities of Private
  Law with limited liability of their members
• They are Mental Health Units that belong to the
  public mental health sectors
• They are able to be involved in commercial
  activities regulated by the Commercial Code
• They aim at the socio/economical reintegration of
  people with mental health and severe psychosocial
  problems

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• TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
• There is a variety of activities such as
  productive, commercial, consuming, educational or
  cultural
• Ability to participate in European Groups of
  Economic Purposes, Joint Ventures, Corporations
  and municipal enterprises
• Capacity of participation in Developmental
  projects and cooperation with other companies,
  associations, legal or natural persons of public
  law.
• MEMBERSHIP
• Natural persons in need of rehabilitation due to
  mental disorder lt35, mental health professionals
  from the national health system gt45, other
  natural or legal persons of public or private
  law.
• MEMBER PRIVILEGES
• Members with psychosocial problems are able to
  work without loosing any welfare privileges due
  to disability

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• FINANCIAL RESOURCES
• Subsidy from the state Budget or the National
  Investment Program, co-funded programs by the EU
  or International Organizations, Donations,
  Grants on the use of properties, Revenues from
  the Cooperative activities and from the
  cooperative properties
• CAPITAL
• The capital consists of the cooperative parts,
  regular (ordinary) reserve funds, additional
  (extraordinary) reserve funds, special reserve
  funds.
• TAXES
• Limited liability Social Cooperatives are
  exempt from all forms of taxation except VAT

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• ABOUT KLIMAX PLUS
• Klimax plus was founded at 2005 and is mainly
  formed from two elder organizations Klimaka N.G.O
  and Klimax a civil cooperation.
• At present time the commercial activity is paper
  recycling which consist of several stages
• Collection of Used paper ( companies,
  organizations)
• Picking the different categories ( newspaper,
  magazine, office paper)
• Selling the paper wholesale to small industries
• Creating small gifts from recycling paper (
  cards, frames)

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• MEMBERS EMPOYEES
• There are 40 members , 10 employees, 9 of them
  are facing mental health and psychosocial
  problems, 7 of them are ex-homeless people
• ABOUT THE FUTURE
• Klimax plus submitted a funding proposal that
  would create 10 new job places for people with
  mental health problems, offer the opportunity of
  purchasing new equipment and cover operating cost
  of the cooperation for a year