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Illinois League Joins Guatemalan CU Relief Effort

Volcano eruptions affect communities that hold two million people.

Erupting volcano in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

The Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions in partnership with the Illinois Credit Union League and ICUL Service Corporation is putting a call out to the movement to provide aid for Guatemalan peer credit unions, their employees and members to provide immediate disaster relief support.

Volcan de Fuego, one of the two active volcanoes near the nation’s capital Guatemala City, erupted in early June, destroying communities and leaving individuals destitute. Nearly two million people have been affected with hundreds more missing. Smoke and ash have rained on the nearby capital, covering a five-mile radius, burying entire villages and displacing families, the WFCU and Illinois league said in a prepared statement.

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