Remittances to Haiti

cford@woccu.org posted on August 11, 2010 at 3:28 PM

WOCCU has been working to expand the remittance market for Haitians. Remittances have become even more important after the January earthquake with family members living abroad needing to send money home to Haiti. As you may recall, Greta Greathouse of the WOCCU HIFIVE project is working on this aspect along with a myriad of other program objectives.  Read more about our HIFIVE project on Facebook by joining the group Haiti HI FIVE.

Since visiting Haiti in April, WOCCU Madison staff have been working to support the remittance initiative of HI FIVE, working with Le Levier Credit Union Federation to launch a viable remittance product to Haiti. We are hopeful that before the end of this calendar year, we will have expanded the remittances market, at lower cost to both the sender and the receiver.  To read more about WOCCU's remittances program, go to www.woccu.org/remittances.