After 35 Countries In 8 Years, Kitsch Goes Home To Florida.(Lois Kitsch)

From: Credit Union Journal | Date: October 18, 2004 | Copyright information

Lois Kitsch, who has spent the past several years working to found credit unions in Afghanistan, has taken a new position with the Filene Research Institute that she says will keep her closer to her Florida home.

Kitsch, whose credit union work has taken her to 35 different countries in eight years as the international projects development manager of World Council of Credit Unions, has been named director of special projects, a new position to turn ideas generated by Fil...

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