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We are Worcester Youth Cooperatives!
Welcome! We are Worcester Youth Cooperatives. We are an autonomous collective of youth-run cooperatives that pools together resources and skills to transform our communities, educate other youth to start their own cooperatives, and struggle together for collective liberation! In September, 2020 6 high school seniors founded WYCs in the midst of the CoronaVirus Pandemic. Genesis, Yari, Laci, Livingston, Jahir, and Mekhi saw that homelessness, the opiate pandemic, hunger, and other systemic problems were exacerbated by the global spread of the virus. The youth linked up with their friends, Mutual Aid Worcester, 508 BikeLife, and community allies to rapidly organize 3 “cooperative solutions” to social issues they cared about: “Hydroponic Healers Co-op” grows produce which, “BikeLife Delivery Co-op“ distributes along with items from food pantries and various other sources while “S.O.S. Worcester“ unites with the most vulnerable members of our community in the course of providing access to life-saving resources and even free basic medical services to the streets! This is just the beginning. We want to inspire more youth to start co-ops through our “Co-op Solutions Academy” and indirectly through our example. You don’t need any credentials to organize and NO ONE needs to give you permission to change your community! Find out how to Unite With Us, and all are invited to Support Youth Power by contributing monetary resources towards our organizing.
Update from “S.O.S. Worcester”
BIG SHOUT-OUT to everyone who has contributed to support our mission over the past month. Y’all have shared coats, shoes, hand-knit blankets, and cash that we have used to buy tampons, pads, hygiene kits, gloves, and other supplies for our homeless neighbors. Now that the eviction moratorium is over and now that is SNOWING we’re feeling the pressure to organize URGENT support for the streets ASAP. None of us are comfortable this winter until all of us are comfortable! None of us are free until all of us are free! PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR ARE ASKING US FOR GLOVES AND WE ALREADY RAN OUT! If you have any to donate, that’s great! Hit us up to arrange a drop-off. If not, please donate directly: Venmo: @BuildWYC CashApp: $PowerWYC We still have some of our exclusive WYC pins for people who donate at least $25 dollars. GET EM WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!