Kabul, Afghanistan-based credit union trade association IIFC Group — a network of 34 Afghan credit unions and credit union service points developed by the World Council of Credit Unions — is now officially a member, the global trade association and development agency announced.
The IIFC Group, an acronym for Islamic Investment and Finance Cooperatives, is the result of the World Council's nine-year presence in Afghanistan and its most recent donor-funded program, Rural Finance Cooperative Development, which aimed to expand financial services in the conflict-plagued Central Asian country.
The World Council said as of November, the IIFC Group had 92,456 members with $4.5 million in savings shares, and in the past three years, those members borrowed and repaid $74 million to help grow their farms and small businesses.
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