Holy Redeemer Credit Union Hosts Open Day in Celebration of 80 Years

After the launch of ‘Jacito Learns to Budget,’ a book by Doctor Carol Babb aimed at teaching kids financial literacy, Holy Redeemer Credit Union kicked off its open-day festivities. Celebrating eighty years of service to Belize, H.R.C.U. invited customers to learn about the company’s history, ask questions about their procedures, and join in fun games to win prizes. H.R.C.U. Chief Finance Officer, Clement Usher, shared more about the event’s purpose.

 

Clement Usher, Chief Finance Officer, H.R.C.U.

“The first event was to open for the book launch for doctor Babb. She’s on her third book launch Jacito learns the budget and we decided that we would do it in along with the open day so that our members could come up and ask questions to the staff about  delinquency or loans or anything that they wanted to talk to our staff more intimately about because you know when you’re transacting at the counter downstairs it’s very difficult to ask questions. So we decided we do this open day and they can come up and ask whatever they want, read up about the credit union. And then we also did a historical display of H.R.C.U. from it started way back in 1944 and up to present 2024.  So it’s eight decades of eighty years of helping people financially. If you look at the display, we started off with three women, and seventy-five cents each, and we are now at almost sixty-five thousand members, with assets of just, I think by next week we’ll be over eight hundred million. So we’ve really grown over the eight decades that we’ve been in service. And it’s thanks to our loyal and faithful members, who are always inside the office, even though we’ve given them access to online and ATMs where they don’t have to come into the credit union, they always prefer to come to H.R.C.U. to do, to the do their own transactions. And of course we have a branch in Independence and so they are also doing their open day today as well. And eventually, by next year, by middle of next year, we should have a branch in Belmopan Capital City.”