Ready for School

The start of school was looming and Jimese did not know where she would get the moneytopay for school clothes for her daughters, one of which also needed tuition for dance school. She had used her clerk’s salary to pay off household bills. Jimese found out about HOPE after it merged with Michoud Federal Credit Union in 2017. She went to the branch, and within 24 hours, she was approved for a loan. “I was able to use the loan to pay off a debt and the remaining balance, I used to buy the school clothes and pay for the dance school,” she says. “Nowadays, kids get teased and I didn’t want the girls wearing uniforms from last year that were too small.”