In 2026, AWIU awarded grants to 19 organizations worldwide and 13 International Women of Courage Alumnae
2026 AWIU Global Micro-Grant Recipients
BENIN
Ong Vie Adorable
To empower 30 women entrepreneurs through solar-powered salt production
BURKINA FASO
Association pour la Promotion des Droits des Jeunes
To provide honey-processing equipment for women
CAMEROON
Africrop Hydroponics
To train young women in hydroponic farming and entrepreneurship
FutihNge/HER Innovation
To equip 15 unemployed women with vocational, digital, and financial skills through 12 weeks of garment construction and textile upcycling training
Vicony's Global Success World (VGSW)
To construct a pit latrine for a primary school
INDIA
Santhivardhana Ministries
To provide women with vocational training in tailoring, embroidery, and jute crafts
KENYA
Girls Period Pride
To establish a menstrual health production facility
Frolics of Hope
To establish a permanent daycare center that enables women to pursue vocational training
Watoto Wasome
To improve early childhood literacy by providing teachers with specialized reading instruction training
LIBERIA
Rural Women Solidarity and Development Organization
To manufacture reusable menstrual pads and distribute menstrual hygiene kits to adolescent girls
NIGERIA
Kingdom Heroines
To provide women with tomato, pepper, and plantain processing and entrepreneurship training
TANZANIA
Sable Herb
To produce environmentally-friendly charcoal briquettes from recycled materials
UGANDA
African Women for Rural Development
To expand access to quality maternal healthcare by installing solar power at a rural medical clinic
Child Link
To improve access to safe drinking water by constructing a community well serving approximately 2,500 people
Happy Mother/Happy Child
To improve emergency maternal healthcare by providing motorcycle transportation for women in remote communities
Women in Action (WINA)
To train women to manufacture furniture from recycled tires
Women Arises
To install a solar-powered water pump and dig a deep well at a community health center
Yes Empowerment Services
To train women in footwear production using recycled tires
Youth and Women for Social and Economic Empowerment
To install a 10,000-liter water storage system for a community health center
2026 IWOC Alumnae Impact Grant Recipients
Zabib Musa Loro (Sudan, 2025)
Agather Atuhaire (Uganda, 2024)
Marini de Livera (Sri Lanka, 2019)
Zarifa Ghafari (Afghanistan, 2020)
Shahla Humbatova (Azerbaijan, 2020)
Maximilienne Chantal Ngo Mbe (Cameroon, 2021)
Dr. Zakira Hekmat (Turkey, 2023)
Arbana Xharra (Kosovo, 2015)
Fadia Thabet (Liberia, 2026)
Ajna Jusic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024)
Latifa Ibn Ziaten (France, 2016)
Jalila Haider (Pakistan, 2020)
Me Nam (Vietnam, 2017)
