MISSION:

We are a profitable and sustainable Financial Services cooperative for the Isthmus region.  We support low-income farmers and families in the marginalized areas of Oaxaca.

VISION:

A sustainable and economically strong institution, improving the lives of members, clients, and their families through a transparent management of information.

PROFILE OF OUR CLIENTELE:

All men and women in the Isthmus region interested in managing their finances, including coffee producers and other workers.

OUR VALUES:

- Strength

- Honesty

- Trust

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY:

We aim to focus ourselves into specific user groups, establishing defined market segments for those who are interested in developing products that respond to a concrete need.

OUR GOALS:

- To develop our own market of members and other clients

- To have sufficient capital

- For our members to be able to identify with the firm

- To be an economically sustainable financial cooperative

- To attend to the credit and savings needs of our members and other clients

- To have processes and operations that function within the Law of Popular Credit and Savings

- To count on efficient and qualified personnel

- To implement an automated computer system

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES:

- Receiving lines of credit without intermediary bankers

- Providing a regulated firm in which our members can deposit their savings

- Providing an opportunity for our members to increase their personal capital

- Having the possibility of expanding our market

- Taking better advantage of any government financial support

- Counting on the consultance of the DGRV

OUR STRENGTHS:

- We can count on a defined market of members and an open market of non-members

- We have a very solid social organization

- We can provide loans at a very low interest rate

- We count on the contributions of our members toward our capital

- We have highly qualified personnel from right here in our region

For more information, contact our offices in Lachiviza, Santa Maria Guienagati, Tehuantepec or Oaxaca, or send us an email at eizsc@uciri.org.