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T-shirts identified CaribDe, co-sponsor of the event.
Students hard at work on their budgets
Media personality, Jenny Jenny interacts with students in the
entertainment segment.
Students interested in purchasing luxury items pause for advice from a
volunteer.
Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League’s President Winston Fletcher
(left) shares a laugh with RJR’s ‘Two Live Crew’ at the outside broadcast
to launch Financial Reality Month.
The 10 excellent budgetters pose with their $5000 share certificates, which was one of the prizes they received. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Students purchasing cars.
Students line up to ‘pay’ utility bills at the Credit Union Reality Fair.
Volunteers assist the students.
Credit Union volunteer assisting students with their budgets.
AFTER THREE weeks of Credit
Union Financial Reality, the
month’s activities climaxed
last Friday with the Youth Financial
Reality Fair at the Golf View Hotel
in Mandeville, Manchester. Just over
130 students from high schools in
Kingston, St Catherine, Portland,
Westmoreland, Manchester,
and St James attended the event.
Credit unions marketing
officers/managers representing
several credit unions and the
Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union
League executed the activities for
the fair. Present also were
volunteers from Caribbean
Development Education which co-
sponsored the event.
Well known social media
influencer, ‘Dutty Berry’ and radio
personality Jenny Jenny played key
roles: the former was the moderator
for the spending event while the
latter brought tons of vibes and had
the students showing off their
singing and dancing talents.
The event was arranged to allow
the students, who were earlier in
the month, taught in a classroom
setting about creating budgets, to
simulate the spending of a month’s
salary. They were helped in their
awareness and at the end, many
testified to their difficulty in
budgeting, while others said that
they had developed an
appreciation of the financial
challenges faced by their parents.
This fair was the second such,
with the first being held last year.
The goal is to reach 500 high-school
students in three years and to bring
these students into credit unions as
savers. This is only the start of a
process to grow the youth
demographic in credit unions.
JCCUL launches book, the history of the credit Union movement. The history of the Credit Union Movement has been captured in the first book
of its kind for the movement. The book, ‘Founders & Keepers’ is a collection of reflections from persons who were pioneers of the movement,
and who worked alongside Father John Peter Sullivan, the founder, to start and build the movement in the 1940s. It also contains reflections
from some present-day influential volunteers who participated in its development.The book was made public on April 5, with a copy being
deposited with the National Library of Jamaica. Here in photo, Winston Fletcher, president of the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League
presents a copy to Monique Forgie-Scott, collections manager for deposit to the library’s catalogue.
Financial Reality Month climaxed with youth fair
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