This accounts for the creation of the first Barter Club, which started in May 1st., 1995 with a group of twenty neighbors and turned in three years to more than 150 Clubs in different regions of the country, involving about 80,000 - 100,000 persons in global barter transactions of food, clothes, artisanship and craft, healthcare, therapies, tourism and formal and informal education and training in many different fields.
El 1º de mayo de 1995, un grupo de vecinos liderado por 3 personas, Carlos De Sanzo, Rubén Ravera y Horacio Cavas, fundó en Bernal, Provincia de Buenos Aires, un primer Club de Trueque, el que en un comienzo se centró en un intercambio sencillo entre personas y que pasó luego a ser multi recíproco, esto es, entre varias personas.