LONDON, United Kingdon --High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, has been presented with the ‘Joe Biden Award for Development Educator of the Year 2014-2015’ for the Caribbean.
The award was made at the International Credit Union Leadership Development and Education Foundation’s awards Ceremony in London on Saturday, 14 November 2015. The High Commissioner was nominated by the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions.
High Commissioner Mrs. Ndombet-Assamba, who was also the special guest speaker at the award function, spoke of her lifelong connection with the credit union movement, which saw her becoming a credit union member as a teenager and her career at the City of Kingston Credit Union (COK), where she joined as legal officer and rose to the level of General Manager in 1994, a post she held until 2002.
She also spoke of the integral role that credit unions continue to play in the social and economic development of Jamaica, noting that 60 percent of the adult population or more than 920,000 Jamaicans were members of a credit union.
The Joe Biden Awards were one of the highlight of the ceremony. The award is named after the US Vice President in recognition of his support of the credit union movement and his co-sponsorship of legislation which allowed for a million dollar annual grant to private voluntary organisations in the USA.
This award is the second to be presented to the High Commissioner this year. In July she received the 2015 World Council of Credit Unions Distinguished Services Award (DSA) at a special ceremony in Denver, Colorado
