United States Agency for International Development

• People 2-20-13 (2)

  February 20, 2013

• Afghanistan’s Credit Union Trade Association Now World Council Member

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  December 21, 2012

  IIFC Group now has 92,456 members and $4.5 million in savings shares.

• Development Education Program Turns 30

  By David Morrison  |  July 5, 2012

  CU program only one remaining from 1982.

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  Michigan’s Ninichuk Named NCUA Deputy Director for Office of Small Credit Union Initiatives

  By Heather Anderson  |  April 18, 2012

  Ninichuk joins agency from Michigan Credit Union League.

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  Facing Up to the Challenges for Co-Ops in Afghanistan

  By David Morrison  |  March 19, 2012

  Whenever credit union political activists grow frustrated at their work with federal or state legislators, when the doors seem closed or telephone calls go unreturned, they could pause to reflect on the duties performed by Mahir Momand.

• World Council Helps Mexican Coffee Farmers

  By Eileen Courter  |  February 10, 2012

  Many people like their coffee black, but some Mexican coffee growers are working to make it green.

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  CU Outreach Aids Afghanistan

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  June 13, 2011

  In the unsettling atmosphere across parts of Afghanistan, small business owners and farmers are getting the capital they need from the country's Islamic investment and finance cooperatives.

• WOCCU Will Develop Another Rural Credit Union Toolbox

  October 13, 2010

  The World Council of Credit Unions will develop a five-year cooperative development program to meet the financial service needs of small farmers in Guatemala, Mexico and Kenya.

• Haiti Earthquake Spares

  January 20, 2010

  Greta Greathouse, chief of party for World Council of Credit Unions' Haitian HIFIVE microfinance program, reported to WOCCU headquarters via e-mail that staff members are uninjured and accounted for.

• WOCCU Project Staff Safe in Haiti

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 13, 2010

  World Council of Credit Unions' Haitian HIFIVE microfinance project staff members are uninjured and accounted for, according to intermittently received e-mails from Greta Greathouse, chief of party for the effort.