Trokaki
Trokaki is a community exchange shop in Carnide, Lisbon, where people trade unwanted items and services for credits, with no money involved.
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Time Banking & Alternative Economies
Trokaki in Carnide lets people exchange goods and services using credits instead of money. Time banks and similar systems make reciprocal exchange practical at community level.
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Time banking and alternative economies in Portugal
Portugal has a long informal history of favours between neighbours and work traded at harvest. Time banks and credit-based exchanges are the attempt to give that habit a structure that also works between strangers in a city.
Trokaki runs a community exchange shop in Carnide, Lisbon, where unwanted items and services are traded for credits and no money changes hands. The credit only has value because the neighbourhood agrees it does.
A time bank needs little more than a list, a room and someone to coordinate it, which is why it starts more easily than it lasts. If you run one in Portugal, we would like to list it. Related focuses: cooperatives and collectives and community resilience. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.