Celdors Rewards Contributing Members.
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Saturday December 19, 2020 was a day many people in Njaba LGA will not forget in a hurry. On that eventful day, tears of joy and laughter flowed from the eyes of the contributing members of Celdors Cooperative Thrift and Credit Union Limited. Celdor is a financial institution that aims to empower rural women and artisans in Umuaka, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State and her neighbouring communities. Celdors CTCU Ltd which has gained the trust of its members in and outside the state through its record of activities and achievements, rewarded her members on December 19, 2020 with a lot of food items to enable them celebrate Christmas with their families. An Umuaka Times reporter who was at the event reported that each contributor smiled home with a 50kg bag of rice, one full stockfish, a gallon of groundnut oil, one carton of tomatoes and a live chicken.
The event which was tagged 10th year anniversary of Celdors which featured Celdors Christmas Product Package Celebration CCPPC, had in attendance some prominent politicians in the state, top government officials and others from the organized private sector. They all spoke well of the initiative of the institution and commended the management and staff of Celdors for an excellent job well perfected and executed.
In an interview with the founder of Celdors Limited, Mrs. Dora Egbule, she told Umuaka Times that the firm has been rewarding her contributing members for the past 5 years. “How we do it here is that we discovered that many women lack cash to buy Christmas things for their children during Xmas periods. We decided to seek for ways to build their financial capacity in order to make them happy during Christmas like others. So we introduced a daily contribution scheme whereby each person contributes just N100 daily from January to December.”
This light contribution scheme Umuaka Times gathered, is the strategic empowerment which the group has initiated in order to make the yearly event a reality.
A female contributor who did not want her name mentioned, was so happy after receiving her food items that she suddenly started to dance and sing praises to the Lord in front of an Umuaka Times reporter at the event. She collected two bags of rice and double of other items too. She told Umuaka Times that Celdors has saved a lot of lives in the community through her numerous intervention programs. She described the activities of the firm as a divine intervention.
Another contributor who collected 4 bags of rice and other items in four places as well, was seen by Umuaka Times shade tears of joy. She said she was assuming it was another type of promise by politicians but when she was told that the program had nothing to do with politics, she then started to contribute. She described the day as the happiest day of her life and asked God to continue to bless the owners of Celdors. At the close of the event in the late hours of the evening, some contributors were still seen around 8 at night on the eventful day, carrying their items home, especially those who made double or more contributions.
The tree of empowerment and capacity building Celdors planted in Umuaka also
grows beyond the community and the local council as well. On December 21st, 2020, just a couple of days after the success of the program in Umuaka, Mrs. Dora Egbule took her team to Isu LGA in Imo State where she also repeated the activity and rewarded the contributing members from the area. At the end of the program, over 1500 persons benefited from the daily contributing scheme for the year 2020. From Isu LGA, about 350 contributors benefited while 1170 contributors from Njaba LGA also benefited. Already some people are registering for the new scheme which has become operational from the beginning of January 2021.
