It's not every day that credit union can change a continent!
In 2022, ACCOSCA and the African Cooperative Development Foundation (ACDF) will take on a major fund-raising campaign to raise $1.2 million to outfit the new ACCOSCA offices and to build a state-of-the-art training academy -- appropriately called The ACCOSCA Academy. The Academy will distinguish itself by attracting well-known and respected credit union practitioners and researchers to provide the highest quality of training programs and certifications. The ACCOSCA Academy will benefit African credit union leaders from National Associations, SACCOs, legislators, regulators, and the community at large. Doing so will provide a first of it’s kind training center that will improve training standards, enhance skills and build strong governance and leadership programs resulting in sustainable SACCOS. The outcome of this center of learning will strengthen and grow the African SACCO system while at the same time improve the lives and livelihoods of the African People.
In October on 2022, the CLIMB AFRICA Campaign will culminate with a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro along side community development work in Kenya and Malawi.
I am proud to participate in the CLIMB AFRICA Campaign because of my passion for education and the growth of the credit union movement around the world. Your donation is appreciated as it will help reach our collective goal of changing a continent through education.
My introduction to the African credit union movement started in 2014 when I met George Ombado, the executive director for Accosca. George, along with two other credit union leaders came to the United States to participate in the National Credit Union Foundation’s Development Education (DE) program, a program designed to further bring about awareness of the uniqueness of credit unions and the impact on the lives of people. George and I met in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and it was there that a friendship began to deepen. George completed the program and vowed to duplicate the DE program throughout sub-Sahara Africa. He held the first DE program for African credit unions in 2014. The next year, I was invited to be a mentor for the program, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have since mentored several DE classes and have been deeply involved in training and development for the African Credit Union (SACCO) movement. There is enormous talent throughout the SACCO movement which is further helped by world class workshops and training that George and his team at Accosca does for all its members. Which is why the next steps of building a state-of-the-art training and learning center is key to the development and growth of SACCOS throughout Africa. Developing tomorrow’s SACCO leaders ensures stronger and better communities and improved quality of life for individuals living in those communities. I come to you for your help and ask you to consider donating toward the construction of the new Training and Learning Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Information about Accosca can be found at accosca.org.
