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The Christian Cooperative Credit Union had a great deal to celebrate this week, when it marked its 56th anniversary. For this establishment, pioneered by Catholic foreign missioners, has made financial solvency more than just a dream for thousands of its members.
At a birthday event which coincided with the UN International Day of Cooperatives on July 2, tributes were paid to the two founders, Archbishop Lawrence Leo Garner of Dhaka and Father Charles J. Young, both of the American Holy Cross Mission.
"The dream of these priests has been realized and Christian members are enjoying its facilities. We must glorify God for this great cause," said Holy Cross Father Benjamin Costa to the gathering of around 200 directors and members.
CCCUL is now the largest union of its kind in Bangladesh, with 26,000 members from various denominations and total assets of two billion taka (US$ 20.67 million).
It steered the establishment of the Cooperative Credit Union League of Bangladesh, a national, self-regulating body that has synergized and streamlined the movement across the country.
Yet its beginnings were humble and born of necessity.
In the early fifties, Christians in Dhaka had few options for borrowing. A loan from a formal institution was simply out of the question, so they had to turn to local moneylenders and landlords who, predictably, charged exorbitant interest rates.
If a family had to sacrifice some of its belongings to pay off the loan, it counted itself lucky; many more ended up destitute.
It was Archbishop Garner who hit upon the idea of forming a credit union. The concept, of a financial institution that is owned and effectively run by its grassroots members, was developed in Europe in the 1800's and had grown popular in North America.
He sent Father Charles to St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, to be trained on forming a cooperative. Father Charles returned, set to work and CCCUL opened for business in July 1955, with 50 founding members.
Today, the UN sees credit unions as a key component in improving socio-economic conditions and a catalyst for social cohesion and unity, especially in poorer nations.
A recent report said, "as the world today faces unstable financial systems, increased insecurity of food supply, growing inequality, rapid climate change and increased environmental degradation, it is increasingly compelling to consider the model of economic enterprise that cooperatives offer."
It also observed that "the recent financial crisis, characterized by the massive public bail-out of private, investor-owned banks, has underlined the virtues of a customer-owned system."
As the movement continues to grow momentum, CCCUL continues to stay at its forefront. Its expansion plans include founding a university, a medical school and a TV channel. It is also increasingly focused on aiding community development as well as economic improvement.
Yet it continues to offer socially useful financial services such as higher education loans, which students can repay in installments once they have a job. And its core activity remains the same as ever: to turn home ownership from a distant dream to a concrete reality.
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source:http://www.ucanews.com/2011/07/07/credit-union-enlivens-missioners'-dreams/
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Buford Dental Groups Mission To Kenya
Buford Dental Group's Mission To Kenya
A Buford Dental Group from Suwanee Dental Care set out on this mission as recorded by Dr. Bill Williams.
Is A Kenya Dental Mission In Your Future?
Can you imagine pulling 645 teeth in a week, especially if you are just a freshman in dental school?
Who would have thought that ten years after our initial landing in Kenya for our first dental mission to the legendary Masai tribe that we would be celebrating Kenya Medical Outreach’s 15th mission trip with a KMO alumni cookout at our home in Suwanee, GA and planning our 16th for the summer of 2011?
Why do we fly eight hours to London, nine hours to Nairobi and drive six hours over tarmac and dirt roads to reach the “Forgotten People” of Olmekenyu?
Why do 23 Americans from all walks of life save, sacrifice, do odd jobs, send out letters for support, fundraise, and do whatever it takes to gather the $4000 it takes to go on the mission trip, some year after year after year?
Why would a young Masai man escort his wife 40 kilometers across the border from Tanzania to the remote village of Morijo in Kenya arriving in the dead of night to see the mission team from America?
Why would 2000 people line up outside out hospital clinic in the heat of the African summer on the equator?
Why would our full time missionaries in Kenya wait with Leonard, our patient from Olmekenyu who had his nose eaten away by tuberculosis, for six days in a dank, dark Nairobi hospital while the boy was examined and the diagnosis confirmed?
Well, the questions could go on and on, but the bottom line is that we offer hope to the tens of thousands who live in the land of the Masai Mara and its surrounding environs. We came to a long forgotten area of Kenya over a decade ago and we never left. Many years have passed; many have traveled to this exotic land with us. Typically, one third of our 20-25 Kenya Medical Outreach mission teams are alumni now, one third are our friends from our area (Atlanta, Georgia) who have never been on our mission, and one third are, amazingly, strangers who found out about our trips from either the Suwaneedental.com or Kenyamo.com web site. They take a leap of faith and sign up with us sight unseen. Our team members have come from California, Florida, Missouri, Boston, Dallas, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and beyond.
The makeup of our team is typically this: one dentist (DMD or DDS), maybe two, a few pre-dental students, some high school students, several teachers or housewives, a physician (MD or DO), three nurses (RN or LPN), perhaps a dental hygienist (RDH) and either a nurse practitioner (NP) or a psychian’s assistant (PA). Pastors, businessmen and pharmacists may round out the group in any particular year.
What is a typical day like on the mission field? In Olmekenkyu, we built three bunkhouses and have a kitchen / dining hall for serving our team breakfast. The number of patients for dental and medical services builds as the morning dawns and by 8:00 a.m. fifty are in line.
We finish our toast, boiled or fried eggs, Kenya tea and by nine o’clock when we begin seeing patients, there are three hundred in the line. We divide into medical, dental, optometry, worming stations. Some of our team hike up the hill to the Olmekenyu Primary School to work with the students, teach, lead Bible Study, or meet with the school administrators about projects we support like water tanks, glass window installations for classrooms or concreting floors.
The Buford dental team is six or seven team members strong. We work with a local dentist, Dr. Daniel from Narok, as our coverage on the mission and we have an ample number of surgical instruments donated by Dr. Arun Nayyar and others to perform extractions, although we have my portable Asceptico dental unit for fillings and scaling. Our system is this: we numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract. We go for hours like that, doing mostly simple extractions, sometimes surgical extractions and an occasional filling or ultrasonic scaling. Tea time is honored as our team takes a break at 11:00 a.m. and then lunch at one or two in the afternoon. Our team usually has a designated camp cook and the food is generally outstanding, even when local produce and meats such as chicken, lamb and goat are in the offering.
The experience for non-dental folks in the dentistry department is memorable. Getting up-close and personal with the how-to and techniques of exodontia is a certainty. Pulling a tooth is common for lay folks on our mission trips. Dental students become fully capable and competent to handle almost any extraction after being on one of our mission teams. The experience is worth a fortune to any dental student ready to graduate into the real world of private practice; just ask Matt Milner from the Medical University of Mississippi School of Dentistry, Hubert Park from Tufts University School of Dentistry or Caroline Norment from the Medical University of South Carolina School of Dentistry.
The opportunity to give back to others who have no ability to receive but by the grace of God those dental services we offer is why we do what we do. In the areas we go to, there is no dentist, no physician to see them; there are no instruments, no supplies, no anesthetics, no clinics where people can seek help for even a simple tooth ache. They are left with primitive options by untrained nurses who have inadequate tools for the job. Where we go, we try to train the nurses and give them a set of proper instruments for tooth removal. We show them the techniques for gaining adequate dental anesthesia so that their extractions are painless.
It’s the least we can do because we’ll be gone in a few days….until next year.
In Kenya, at the equator, the sun sets at six o’clock, so we try to be completed by then each day. More than once we’ve worked by flashlight in the dark. Each day we may see over 100 dental patients and 200 medical patients in our clinics. Its rewarding as well as tiring. The dinner hour is a time of reflection on the day and talking about what transpired in our individual clinics. Man, the stories we hear - the tales that are told! There is never a dull moment on mission in Africa.
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Dr. Williams owns and operates one of the most acclaimed dental practices in the country, Suwanee Dental Care.
http://Suwaneedental.com
To learn more about his Kenya trip and services, visit
http://AtlantaGentleDental.com
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