The Importance Of Cooperatives In The Economic Strengthening Of Poor Women Being Served By Edirne Community Centres And Their Attitudes Towards Cooperativization

The most basic starting point of community centers are women, for women of preventive, educational-developmental treatment and rehabilitative services are available. Also, to contribute to family income and home due to acceptance of an indentity, the woman with hand-crafted to generate income and provide vocotional also supportive studies are being made. The purpose of this study is to reveal the attitudes of poor women served by the Edirne province Community Centre against cooperativization. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 56 women who were served by Community Centres. Women in the province of Edirne Community Center carries out a lot of activities such as: production of soap, sewing-embroidery, collar pin, carries out, painting wood etc. However, women produce high-cost product and to fall to sell the market price of these products. Women’s crafts cooperatives in order to eliminate this problerm needs to be established. Thanks to the cooperative, the women, are going to develop lower cost products and sell products to the market price. Thus, women will be contribute to both family income and the development of the province. According to the results of the questionnaire, it was determined that the women had positive attitudes towards co-operation. According to the Chisquare analysis, it was concluded that there was a statistically significant relationship between establishing cooperatives and women's having an understanding of cooperatives