Believing that Credit Unions and related institutions are effective instruments for economic and social development of people and communities CENT CENT responds to the World Council of Credit Unions' moral suasion and appropriates these beliefs as follows: • We believe the credit union movement should expand the opportunity to participate in the services and benefits of credit unions to all who want and need these. Such services and benefits should be provided with neutrality relative to race, nationality, gender, religion or politics. • We believe the credit unions should serve as effective instruments for human, social and economic development throughout the world. • We believe that local, national and international credit union organisations should seek to contribute to the development goals and needs of their communities. • We believe that the credit union movement should foster and practice the principles of co-operative pooling and utilisation of resources for the ultimate benefit of the credit union member. • We believe that all sectors of the credit union movement should strive for permanent viability through the attainment of financial and technical self-sufficiency. • We believe that the credit union leadership and management should embrace participation in the democratic process at all levels of the credit union movement. • We believe that the credit union movement should attract and develop the best possible human resources at all levels to serve the leadership, management and staff of the movement. • We believe that the credit union movement should adhere to the Credit Union Operating Principles defined by the World Council of Credit Unions. " This page is for like minded people to take their economic destiny into their own hands through self respect, self responsibility, and self reliance while cooperating and collaborating for our common good and the good of the world as a whole.