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 […]
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In 2025, AWIU awarded grants to 19 organizations worldwide, 5 IWOC Alumnae, and the 2025 International Women of Courage 2025 AWIU Global Micro-Grant Recipients CAMEROON Community Empowerment Agency for Sustainable Development (CEMASUD) To train and support startup in sustainable market gardening and business management DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Solidarity Aux
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In 2024, AWIU awarded grants to 15 organizations worldwide and the International Women of Courage 2024 AWIU Representative List Of Grant Recipients DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Congo Restoration Girls School of Compassion To furnish a library for a girls primary school and complete a textbook collection GHANA Prince & Princess
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In 2023, AWIU awarded grants to 19 organizations worldwide and the International Women of Courage 2023 U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Zakira Hekmat, Afghanistan Alba Rueda, Argentina Danièle Darlan, Central African Republic Doris Rios, Costa Rica Meaza Mohammed Ibrahim, Ethiopia Bakhytzhan Toregozhina, Kazakhstan Ras Adiba Binti Mohd
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In 2022, AWIU awarded grants to 14 organizations worldwide and the International Women of Courage 2022 U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh Simone Sibilio do Nascimento, Brazil Ei Thinzar Maung, Burma Josefina Klinger Zúñiga, Colombia Taif Sami Mohammed, Iraq Facia Boyenoh Harris, Liberia Najla Mangoush,
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2022 AWIU Grants to Non-Profits Central to AWIU’s mission is our commitment to strengthening the work of women across the world through grants. Early on, AWIU issued grants for individual women to travel to the United States for study. In the past number years, grants have been issued to organizations
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An AWIU Conversation with Dr. Rita Nyampinga International Woman of Courage Dr. Rita Nyampinga has been busy since returning to Harare, Zimbabwe from her stateside visit in 2020 to collect her IWOC award. On June 18th, she shared what she’s been doing with women recently released from prison in
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It is with great sadness that AWIU reports the recent news of the death of Stephen Marwa, a wonderful man many of you knew through his work as executive director of Hope Revival Children’s Organization in Tanzania. AWIU supported the compelling work Stephen was doing in the Musoma and Mara
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In mid-December, 2021, Meg Huebner of AWIU’s Grant Committee received a status report from P. Sagayamary Tamilarasi, Secretary of the Society for Women, Education and Economic Thrust (SWEET), located in the village of Veedur in the Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. SWEET was the recipient of a 2021 American Women
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Sunday, September 19, 2021 Marini de Livera: Empowering Women and Children in Sri Lanka By Betsy Richman | December 19, 2021 Marini de Livera is a crusader, one who aims her powerful weapons of pro bono legal services and training in the arts against the exploitation of women and children
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