Mellody Hobson is president of Ariel Investments. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm offers six no-load mutual funds for individual investors and defined contribution plans as well as separately managed accounts for institutions and high net worth individuals. As president, Mellody is responsible for firm-wide management and strategic planning, overseeing all …
AWIU Provides A Grant To HVWA To Help Create Self Employment To Underprivileged Women Through Tailoring Program Through AWIU’s grant, HVWA identified disadvantaged women and girls in Amalapuram, and its surrounding villages of East Godavari district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India and surveyed in these villages to create …
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AWIU Grant Report From Shuru Calcutta, A Sister Organization Of Hope In Life Foundation and Flight To Harmony Foundation Purpose of project: Empowerment of women and children inside correctional homes via art therapy because everyone deserves a second chance! Typically all day Art Workshops not only enable inmates to release …
Piggery Project Training Report Introduction: Mitooma Women’s Dignity foundation (MIWODIF) received funding from American Women For International Understanding (AWIU) to support Mitooma Women’s Dignity Foundation piggery project. The management of MIWODIF has started conducting piggery farming training for its beneficiaries. The training was officiated by the town clerk Mitooma town …
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AWIU provided a grant to Melel Xojobal for a project that will help obtain birth certificates for children from birth to seventeen who were born in small villages of Chiapas, Mexico. Young girls cannot qualify for basic rights, such as school registration without a birth certificate but most are from …
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AWIU Grant Progress Report Project: Economic Empowerment through Skill Development Conducted by: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Working Women Union-Da Hawwa Lur Sponsored by: American Women for International Understanding Launch Date: 1st July, 2016 Background: Da Hawwa Lur is a non-profit organization which is working to improve the socio-economic and cultural conditions for …
American Women For International Understanding Hosts Career Opportunities For International Relations Symposium At The U.S. Department of State American Women for International Understanding, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State (DOS), presented the 2nd Annual AWIU Career Opportunities for International Relations (COIR) Symposium on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 8:30 …
An Article By One Of Our Delegates, Joan Poulas, to Ethiopia: Our trip to Ethiopia was far different from what we had expected. Most of us did not realize that this is NOT an Arab country; nor is it even primarily Muslim. Instead we found a country trying very hard …
AWIU Delegation To Ethiopia Spreads Ethiopian Sentiment: BE KIND Read More »
“I call on you, my Sisters of Courage, to find five girls to mentor and through these girls, we will build a better world,” Vicky Ntetema, an International Women of Courage honoree from Tanzania, challenged her fellow honorees and the audience of 300 at the Jonathan Club in downtown Los …
IWOC Celebration 2016: An Electric Evening for the “Sisters of Courage” Read More »
On April 7, 2016, American Women for International Understanding (AWIU) will host the International Women of Courage Celebration in Los Angeles in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and the International Visitors Council Los Angeles. The International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award was established by the U.S. Department of …
International Women of Courage Celebration in Los Angeles for First Time Read More »
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