Answer:
Cooperatives provide vital health, housing and banking services; they promote education and gender equality; they protect the environment and workers rights. Through these and a range of other activities, they help people in more than a hundred countries better their lives and those in their communities.
Examples:
Those types of cooperatives include producer/marketing, retail supply, utilities, cable television, agricultural services, fish marketing, child care, farmers' markets and community service.
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