Cooperative Pour la Promotion des Commercant de Materiels de Construction (COPCOM)

Overview of cooperative

Cooperative Pour la Promotion des Commercant de Materiels de Construction (COPCOM), is a Cooperative for the Promotion of Construction Materials Traders (COPCOM) is one of more than 10,000 cooperatives operating in the Republic of Rwanda. It was started in 2004. The people who started the cooperative, initially they were scattered all over the district of Nyarugenge at a place known as Agakinjiro. Activities there were being operated in a very small space they actually didn’t have enough and proper place to run their activities/business.

So there was government’s policy which was saying that people should work together in order to increase the output. So government started to educate people how they can work together (working in co-operatives) working together was a good policy and it is still a good one. After realizing that working together was a good idea they decided to create something like an Association which was called UWAGARWA.

On December 06, 2010, this UWAGARWA association was transformed into a Cooperative for the Promotion of Building Materials Traders (COPCOM) with the founding members who were estimated at around 102 members.

On 06th December 2010, cooperative worked in wooden buildings

On 06th December 2010, cooperative worked in wooden buildings, The Cooperative has grown, new members joined, it is composed with 295 members at the moment.

The government assisted them by giving them a plot in Gisozi sector where we are today. We would like to thank our government once again for always supporting the citizens. After receiving this donation of the plot, the members of COPCOM thought about how they were going to exploit this plot, this is when the idea of building multi storehouses came.