Nine months after the Haiti earthquake, the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and its foundation are teaming up with Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU to send a delegation to the country this Monday to assess aid help.

Specifically, the group will assess rebuilding the country's international remittance system as well as explore new CU partnerships. The group includes the Pennsylvania Credit Union Foundation's executive director, Joseph Wambach, and his Haitian-born wife, Maryse, a doctor.

Christine M. Woods, president/CEO of the West Chester-based, $75 million Keystone FCU, is also making the trip. "We feel strongly that as credit union leaders we have an obligation to do our part on the world stage to assist when tragedy strikes," she said.

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