WHY LISKÓW?
The village of Lisków , near Kalisz, which we commemorate in the name of our Partnership, personifies the successful activation of the local community for the purpose of greater integration and development. Within less than 20 years a poor village, plagued by different social calamities associated with poverty, was transformed by one co-operative activist - a parish priest into a dynamic and prosperous community. By motivating and engaging in co-operation his parishioners (and therefore creating the prototype approach, which we now call the strategy of partners intervention) the vicar founded co-operative stores, banks, a dairy co-operative, schools, and a brickyard.

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What s more, those institutions, thanks to the inhabitants good organisation, their co-operation, and understanding of common goals and mutual trust, went on developing on their own. The main feature of the economic initiatives in Lisków was their cascade character: one initiative instigated another and another. So Lisków is the symbol not only of the tradition of business co-operation, but it is also the symbol of change the social and economic transformations, achieved thanks to the leaders and by joint forces of the local community.