Credit union, commonly abbreviated as CU, is a financial institution engaged in the savings and loan owned and managed by its members, and aimed for the welfare of its own members. See performance analysis reports about this.
A credit cooperative has three main principles:
1) The principle of self-help (savings only from its members),
2) The principle of solidarity (on loan are given only to members) and
3) The principle of education and awareness (the building is the main character, only a good character which can be given a loan).
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The history of credit unions began in the 19th century. When the Germans hit by the economic crisis because of the blizzard that swept across the country, farmers can not work because many plants do not produce. The population was starving. This situation is exploited by the rich. They give loans to people with very high interest rates. There are So many people fell into debt. By being unable to pay debts, then the rest of their belongings were confiscated by the usurer.
Then not long ago, there was the Industrial Revolution. The work previously done man was taken over by machines. Many workers affected by layoffs. German unemployment hit a problem on a large scale. Seeing this condition Flammersfield mayor, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was concerned and wanted to help the poor. He invited the rich to garner support. He managed to collect money and bread, then distributed to the poor.
It turned out that charity does not solve the problem of poverty. Because poverty is the result of an erroneous way of thinking, Uncontrolled use of money and not a few recipient charities wasting money in order to ask for charity again soon. Finally, the benefactor was no longer interested in helping the poor. Raiffeisen was not desperate. He took another way to answer this question of poverty. It collects bread from bread factories in Germany to be distributed to the workers and poor farmers. But these efforts did not resolve the problem. Today given the bread, tomorrow is up, and so on.
Based on that experience, Raiffeisen concluded: “the difficulties of the poor can only be overcome by the poor themselves. The poor have to collect money together and then lend them to others as well. Loans must be used for productive purposes that provide income. Loan collateral is the borrower’s character. To realize the dream of Raiffeisen, with the workers and poor farmers form cooperatives eventually named Credit Union (CU) that is, a collection of people who trust each other.
Credit union financials built by Raiffeisen, poor farmers and workers developed rapidly in Germany, and even now has spread throughout the world.