Helping youth learn to handle finances is an internationalventure for the Connecticut International Partnership Committee ofthe Credit Union League of Connecticut. The group traveled to theCaribbean last month to help a colleague in Trinidad & Tobagocreate a Financial Reality Fair as her project for graduating fromCaribDE. Newly minted Development Educator Michele Wallace isfinance manager at COPOS Credit Union in San Fernando, Trinidad.The Connecticut group donated a Financial Reality Fair templatemuch like the one used back home and volunteers came to help adaptthe program for youth in the island nation.
|Also participating were John Keet, CEO, Personal Care AmericaFCU; Carol Bayreuther, CEO, Hartford Healthcare FCU; Barb Bass,league vice president; Keith Wiemert, CEO, Seasons FCU; KathyChartier, CEO, Members CU; and Gerry Singleton of CUNA Mutual, arecent CaribDE graduate and volunteer from Financial Reality Fairsduring the GAC in Washington D.C.
|Below, Joanne Todd, CEO of the $70 millionNortheast Family FCU in Manchester, Conn., helpsa student participant at the fair.
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