MILKCOOP | Modernized, Indigenous and Lesson - Learnt Knowledge Producers' Cooperative Society
MILKCOOP | Modernized, Indigenous and Lesson - Learnt Knowledge Producers' Cooperative Society
MILKCOOP is an approved NGO dedicated for Strong Civil Society, Gender Equality, Sustainable Livelihood, Climate Change & Resilience, Peace building & Reconciliation, Food Security & Sovereignty, Human & Child Rights and Advocacy for the disadvantaged community in Southern Sri Lanka
MILKCOOP is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) in Deniyaya of Southern Sri Lanka dedicated to empower most disadvantaged and social excluded community with sustainable livelihood through improving their knowledge and skills without ethnic ,religious and gender diverse. It cater to rural and plantation community in vulnerability due to the lack proper guidance and access to the external resources.
We provide sustainable farming, rights advocacy, and community empowerment services that strengthen families, protect the environment, and ensure food security for a better future.
We empower families with skills, seeds, and tools to grow healthy, sustainable home gardens
Programs designed to ensure families access nutritious food, reducing hunger and improving community well-being
We assist farmers with training, resources, and guidance to improve sustainable milk production
Training and resources for mushroom growing, creating income opportunities and healthy food alternatives
We support communities in beekeeping, promoting honey production and pollination for agriculture
We encourage eco-friendly composting practices, reducing waste while creating natural fertilizer for farming
Advocacy and programs to protect, support, and empower women and children in local communities
We conduct initiatives to protect forests, conserve resources, and promote eco-friendly community practices
Educational programs that raise awareness and encourage policy change for community well-being
Programs promoting equality, dignity, and protection of fundamental human rights for all people
Discover the inspiring journey of our community through photos of sustainable farming, training programs, advocacy events, and environmental initiatives that shape lives and futures
Explore our official policy documents to understand the principles, guidelines, and commitments that drive our work in community development, food security, human rights, and environmental sustainability. Transparency and accountability are our foundation
MILKCOOP aligns its initiatives with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, fostering food security, equality, environmental conservation, and community empowerment for a sustainable future.
MILKCOOP dedicates to cater to the marginalized community in this area who are under poverty line with the aim of ending poverty
MILKCOOP‘s one thematic area is sustainable livelihood and it mostly direct to the edible productions that can zero the hunger –organic farming, animal husbandry, mushroom cultivation etc... This system respects to the policy of “garden to plate”
MILKCOOP consists of 2000 members and 85% of them are women engaged in domestic level income sources and MILKCOOP is extending space for women for civic engagements leading to improve the decision making process in the family and society inkling to gender equality
MILKCOOP highly concern in the secure foods and right to food of the community and efforts to expand food availability and food sovereignty increasing knowledge and skills.
MILKCOOP members are mostly engaged in farming and they are in the challenge of climate change. The prevailing adverse weather pattern makes them more vulnerable reducing the yields of the crops expanding invasive pest damages and diseases and natural disasters. Then, MILKCOOP efforts in every hand to increase the farmers’ resilience taking appropriate climate adaptive strategies.
MILKCOOP operates close to high biodiversity hotpot-Singhraja Rain Forest and implement eco- friendly project s –do-no-harm to the environment .All of these collective achievements gain to better life on the land for all the beings.
MILKCOOP consists of multi-ethnic staff and membership and operates in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious area and always pay attention to maintain peace and harmony in the every aspect,
MILKCOOP is not just merely a power; it is a combination of strengths. MILKCOOP works in the partnership of regional Governmental, Nongovernmental organizations and private firms to achieve the entire Goal of the MILKCOOP ‘Vision and Mission
