Collaboration Demonstrates the ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse people or teams, compromise, build consensus in decision-making, accept shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the opinions and contributions of individual team members, from one's own position. Identity pooling of funds and savings among members. To provide consumer goods at reasonable prices to the members. Providing services to the members as per their needs like; housing, transportation, insurance etc. To promote self-reliance, self-reliance among people. A cooperative society is an organization formed to provide financial assistance to its members. Members are responsible for raising capital to help those in need. It primarily protects the weaker sections of the rural society from exploitation by rich individuals and companies. Cooperative members help each other in the farm. Members of a cooperative pool in their resources. Co-operative society members borrow money from moneylenders. Co-operative members help each other to repay their debts.