The first years after Mauritius gained independence were a very difficult socio-economical period. Families at the bottom of the ladder were very affected by the high cost of living and unemployment. It not easy for them to get loans from banking institutions. Many resorted to loan sharks (pawnbrokers, Kaser), and got into real spiral.
We will stay there until 2013. On March 15 of that year, we moved into our building, Rue Gabriel Froppier..
It is in this context that within the diocese of Port Louis, lay people from various parishes and movements would lay the first foundations of Savings and Credits Cooperatives (Credit Union), across the island. The names of the pioneers are Mgr Amédée Nagapen, Father Robert Fleurot, and layman Edwin de Robillard.
In Curepipe, the Credit Union was born in the Catholic parish of Ste-Thérèse, thanks to the intuition, so to speak, of the priest at the time, Mgr Jacques Giraud. He gave the founding members a small square of barely ten square feet in the art room, near the Great Cross.
Curepipe Co-operative Credit Union was registered on July 5, 1971.
The office takes place on Sundays. This is the time when the secretary took the money collected home to deposit it in the bank the next day.
Around the 1980s, Father Christmas Koënig, who succeeded Mgr Giraud as parish priest, offered us a small square in the library building which would later become the Jean-Paul II Room, in the courtyard of the rectory.
We will stay there until 2013. On March 15 of that year, we moved into our building, Gabriel Froppier Street.
How far we’ve come…
The story continues…
Mission: “ To offer members the best products ,at the best cost and under the best possible conditions.”
Vision: “ To be a model a benchmark and a leader in the sector of Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Mauritius”
