2017
ACTION FOR RURAL WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (ARWDF), UGANDA
Mushroom Growing and Processing Trainings for Life Improvement (Grant Sent in January 2017)
ACTION FOR WOMEN NETWORK (AWN), UGANDA – Coffee Processing Project. Addressing Climate Change
ALPHA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE, UGANDA– Goat Farming Project for Women with HIV/Aids
ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES (AWODA), UGANDA – Association of Women Development Associates, piggery project
BANDA WOMEN INITIATIVE FOR ALL (BAWONIFA), UGANDA – Tree planting project
DIVINE ACTION RURAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (DARUDEFO), UGANDA – Training Women in Making Reusable Sanitary Pads and Empowerment of Women and School Going Girls
FRIENDLY WATERS – An American based organization that trains people through-out the world in the use of bio-sand filters with which to sanitize water. AWIU awards a grant to train a group in India
HOPE REVIVAL CHILDREN ORGANIZATION (HRCO), TANZANIA – Bio Sand Water Filters Training, Technology Skills, and Water Sanitation Program
THE LILY PROJECT, NICARAGUA – Screening for cervical cancer
NYAKASANGA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (NYAKU), UGANDA – Soap and Basket making Project to Empower Women to meet Basic Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Concerns
NYAMETE WOMEN, TANZANIA – Purchase of chicks, vaccinations, and feed
RURAL PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (RPDS), INDIA – Trade Skills Training Programs for Vulnerable Young Girls and Women
SEEDS TRUST, INDIA – Income Generation Activities to HIV/Aids affected Widows and Women Headed Families
SHANTHI SEVA, INDIA – Supporting families of cancer patients
SOCIETY FOR RURAL HEALTH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (SRHED), INDIA – Kitchen gardens
UNITED AFRICAN ORPHANS AND WIDOWS (UAOWF), UGANDA – Training women to make and distribute reusable sanitary pads
WOMEN DEVELOPMENT WELFARE SOCIETY, INDIA – Additional Bicycles for Girls to promote Awareness Generation and Education
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2017:
Anonymous, Bangladesh
Malebogo Molefhe, Botswana
Natalia Ponce de Léon, Colombia
Rebecca Kabugho, Democratic Republic of Congo
Jannat Al Ghezi, Iraq
Major Aïchatou Ousmane Issaka, Niger
Veronica Tamar Simogun, Papua New Guinea
Arlette Contreras Bautista, Peru
Sandya Eknelygoda, Sri Lanka
Sister Carolin Tahhan Fachakh, Syria
Saadet Özkan, Turkey
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Vietnam
Fadia Najib Thabet, Yemen
2016
ACTION FOR RURAL WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION – UGANDA
(Mushroom growing and processing – Training for Life improvement)
ALPHA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE – UGANDA (Knitting Machine Project)
DA HAWWA LUR – PAKISTAN (Tailoring Project)
HOPE IN LIFE – SHURU KOLKATA – INDIA – (Let Us Hold Hands-Prisoner Training Project)
HUMANE VOLUNTARY WELFARE ASSOCIATION (HVWA), INDIA (Tailoring Project)
KHADIJA KUBRA WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURE, KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (English / Computer Classes)
KRMA-US PARTNERS, LTD – UGANDA (Cassava Project)
LOS ANGELES –LUSAKA SISTER CITY COMMITTEE, ZAMBIA (Microfinance Project to Improve Economic Development for women and children)
LUBENGOA WOMEN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (LUWODEA) UGANDA (Briquette making project)
MELEL XOJOBAL, CHIAPAS, MEXICO (Birth Certificate Project)
MITOOMA WOMEN’S DIGNITY – UGANDA (Piglet Project)
NYAMETE WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP – TANZANIA
(Poultry keeping and Loan Facility for women)
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES – KENYA (Life Skills to Adolescent Girls to Avert HIV/AIDS & Sanity Napkins)
PREHJA WOMEN’S CENTER – REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO (Strengthen and promote women values)
SAIDU FALAHI TANZEEM – PAKISTAN (Campaign Against Forced Marriages)
SPRMMM (Sree Padmarani Mary Mahila Mandali), INDIA (Tailoring/Knitting Project)
WOMEN DEVELOPMENT WELFARE SOCIETY (WDWS) (Purchase of Bicycles)
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2016:
Sara Hossain, Bangladesh
Ni Yulan, China
Thelma Aldana, Guatemala
Nisha Ayub, Malaysia
Zhanna Nemtsova, Russia
Awadeya Mahmoud, Sudan
Rodjaraeg Wattanapanit, Thailand
Debra Baptist-Estrada, Belize
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, France
Dr. Nagham Nawzat Hasan, Iraq
Fatimata M’baye, Mauritania
Zuzana Števulová, Slovakia
Vicky Ntetema, Tanzania
Dr. Nihal Naj Ali Al-Awiaqi, Yemen
2015
ALPHA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE (AWEI), UGANDA
DA HAWA LUR, PAKISTAN (Funds will help educate women workers about their rights)
HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL (HDI), NIGER (funds aid hospitals – staff and physicians to prevent obstetric fistulas and maternal mortality in Niger)
INTERACTION FOR PEACE, KENYA (Funds to train eight teachers conflict resolution skills)
JALALABAD ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT, AFGHANISTAN
KHADIJA KUBRA WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURE, KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (IT Training)
KRMA -U.S. PARTNERS, UGANDA (Funds to hire an agronomist consultant for recommendations for other crops for 40 acres of previously cassava farm)
MODERN MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, NEPAL (Education for girls and women in Kalikot, Nepal)
NATIVA, BOLIVIA (Sewing Project)
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES, KENYA (grant with which to provide skills training to 9-12-year-old girls in the slums of Nairobi)
PREHA, KOSOVO (Breast Cancer Awareness)
ZENA BIH, BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (grant provided sewing machines and training for women to establish independence)
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE 2015:
Captain Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan
Nadia Sharmeen, Bangladesh
Rosa Julieta Montano Salvatierra, Bolivia
May Sabe Phyu, Burma
Beatrice Epaye, Central African Republic
Marie Claire Tchecola, Guinea
Sayaka Osakabe, Japan
Arbana Xharra, Kosovo
Tabassum Adnan, Swat, Pakistan
Majd Chourbaji, Syria
2014
ALPHA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE, UGANDA
KARAMAH
KRMA – US PARTNER’S CASAVA PROJECT, UGANDA
MAITI, NEPAL
MALAYEKA CHARITY, PERU
NILE SISTER’S SAFE PROJECT, AFRICAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN SAN DIEGO
VANAVEVHU (CHILDREN OF THE SOIL), ZIMBABWE
WOMEN LEAD
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2014:
Dr. Nasrin Oryakhil, Afghanistan
Bishop Rusudan Gotsiridze, Georgia
Judge Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar, Guatemala
Laxmi, India
Fatimata Touré, Mali
Dr. Maha Al Muneef, Saudi Arabia
Oinikhol Bobonazarova, Tajikistan
Ruslana Lyzhychko, Ukraine
Beatrice Mtetwa, Zimbabwe
2013
GLOBAL PRESS INSTITUTE
Grant To DR. ATHEER JAWAD AMEER AL-SAFFAR Crisis Health Initiative – Johns Hopkins Seminar
KARAMAH GRANT RECIPIENTS
VAKTI (IT’S TIME) Empowering Young Roma Girls in the Community
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2013:
Malalai Bahaduri, Afghanistan
Tsering Woeser, China
Julieta Castellanos, Honduras
Nirbhaya “Fearless”, India (Deceased)
Dr. Josephine Obiajulu Odumakin, Nigeria
Elena Milashina, Russia
Fartuun Adan, Somalia
Razan Zeitunah, Syria
Ta Phong Tan, Vietnam
2012
GLOBAL PRESS INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2012:
Maryam Durani, Afghanistan
Major Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo, Brazil
Zin Mar Aung, Burma
Jineth Bedoya Lima, Colombia
Hana Elhebshi, Libya
Aneesa Ahmed, Maldives
Shad Begum, Pakistan
Samar Badawi, Saudi Arabia
Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih, Sudan
The Honorable Safak Pavey, Turkey (Unable to Attend)
2011
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES:
Maria Bashir, Afghanistan
Nasta Palazhanka, Belarus
Henriette Ekwe Ebongo, Cameroon
Guo Jianmei, China
Yoani Sanchez, Cuba
Agnes Osztolykan, Hungary
Eva Abu Halaweh, Jordan
Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan
Marisela Morales Ibañez, Mexico
Ghulam Sughra, Pakistan
2010
CHINESE WOMEN CARDIOLOGISTS:
Yundai Chen
Meilin Lui
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2010:
Shukria Asil, Afghanistan
Colonel Shafiqa Quraishi, Afghanistan
Androula Henriques, Cyprus
Sonia Pierre, Dominican Republic
Shadi Sadr, Iran
Ann Njogu, Kenya
Dr. Lee Ae-ran, Republic of Korea
Jansila Majeed, Sri Lanka
Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, Syria
Jestina Mukoko, Zimbabwe
2009
AFGHAN MIDWIFE TRAINING
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES:
Wazhma Frogh, Afghanistan
Norma Cruz, Guatemala
Suaad Abbas Salman Allami, Iraq
Ambiga Sreenevasan, Malaysia
Hadizatou Mani, Niger
Veronika Marchenko, Russia
Mutabar Tadjibayeva, Uzbekistan
Reem Al Numery, Yemen (Unable to Attend)
2008
AFGHAN MIDWIFE TRAINING
KARAMAH GRANT RECIPIENTS:
Fatima Zohra Benabdessamad
Aziza Chuitar
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARDEES 2008:
Suraya Pakzad, Afghanistan
Virisila Buadromo, Fiji
Dr. Eaman Al-Gobory, Iraq
Valdete Idrizi, Kosovo
Dr. Begum Jan, Pakistan
Nibal Thawabteh, Palestinian
Cynthia Bendlin, Paraguay
Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim, Somalia
2007
Indira Dasgupta, India
2004
Elzbieta Lipska, M. D., Poland
2003
Naraa Tserendagva, Mongolia
2001
Rachel Ben Dor, Israel
2000
Irina Chirica, Romania
Dr. Mairi Org, Estonia
Ana Radovanovic, Yugoslavia
1999
Kyoko Ono, Japan
1998
Lourdes C. Sifontes Greco, Venezuela
Lyudmilla A. Kurbatova, Russia
Wang Wei, The People’s Republic of China
1997
Kathy Matsika, Zimbabwe
1996
Vida Shammas, New York/Israel
1995
Dr. Olga Bolshakova, Russia
Celia Xi Pan, People’s Republic of China
Manuela Tvaronaviciene, Lithuania
1994
Sinead Ni Fhaolain, Mary Quinn, and Jane Conroy, Ireland
Sandra Persuy, France
Ramza Zgheib, Lebanon
1992
Zhu Dongmei, People’s Republic of China
1991
Ph Dr. Hana Ulmanova, M.A., Czech Republic
