About Us

JinKom is a solidarity network that brings together the cooperatives founded by Kurdish women living in Switzerland. Its name comes from the Kurdish words jin (woman) and kom (community).

Kurdish women living in cities across Switzerland turn the knowledge, craft and food culture they brought with them into shared production in their cooperatives. A cooperative gives women both a regular income and a community to lean on in language, work and everyday life. Yet a small cooperative working on its own is often left alone with Swiss regulations, market access, financing and visibility. JinKom was founded to end that isolation.

What we do

• We bring Kurdish women's cooperatives in Switzerland together to share experience, knowledge and resources.
• We offer training and advice on Swiss cooperative law, bookkeeping and management to women who want to start a cooperative.
• We help products reach customers in Switzerland through shared shops, city markets and online channels.
• We work to make Kurdish women's labour, language and culture visible to the Swiss public.

Our principles

We follow the principles of voluntary and open membership, democratic control, economic participation, autonomy, education and cooperation among cooperatives. Every cooperative makes its own decisions; JinKom is the common ground that strengthens them. We work in Kurdish, Turkish, German, French and Italian, so every woman can take part in her own language.

We produce together, decide together and grow stronger together.