MFI Report

The Credit Cooperative, Sawiran (Kopdit Sawiran), hereafter called Kopdit, is located 6 km from Nongkojajar. Kopdit was established in 1989 as a cooperative for the employees of Sawiran Retret House and sponsored by Father (Romo) Willy CDD, the Leader of Sawiran Retret House. Initially, the formation of the cooperative was only to serve the employees of the Retret House and was established by 20 founding members.
In 1998, Kopdit began accepting people from outside the Retret House as members.

The Kopdit Sawiran is a cooperative with the overall goal of strengthening the local economy, improving the peoples’ small businesses through the membership of a cooperative, building a collective saving fund, and disbursing financial assistance thereby improving the welfare of the members. The cooperative was founded in the community and eventually gained the support of the Santo Yoseph College Foundation, Malang chaired by Father (Romo) Willy CDD. Father Willy is now appointed as the Senior Advisor.

At the early stages of the formation of the cooperative, Santo Yoseph College provided assistance in the form of funds for pre-opening expenses, human resources and other utilities.

Based on the articles of incorporation of the Kopdit, the Board of Governance will be appointed in the annual members meeting for a term of 3 years. As of March 2006, a new Board of Governance and Board of Supervisors was just appointed. To date, Kopdit has expanded their activities through establishing 4 additional branches (TP-Tempat Pelayanan). Cacher