Sponsored by the Ewa Plantation Company, Ewa Federal Credit Union was chartered on February 5, 1937 by an agency of the Federal government, then the Farm Credit Administration. With $80 in shares, sixteen charter members held their first organization meeting in the sugar plantation’s Administration building. Membership drives were held in the various villages which produced 308 members and $10,000 in assets that very first year. The credit union played an integral part in the daily lives of the plantation workers, providing a convenient means to save and borrow money. For those who grew up in the sugar plantation era, it was an idyllic, carefree and almost surreal experience which is still fondly remembered by all.