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Mitooma grant blog

AWIU Provides Grant to Mitooma Women’s Dignity Foundation (MIWODIF)

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...
chiapas grant blog

AWIU Provides a Grant to Melel Xojobel, Chiapas, Mexico

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,...
Da Hawwa Lur blog

Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment: AWIU Grant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Working Women Union-Da Hawwa Lur

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,...
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Promoting Careers in International Relations for Women – AWIU’s COIR Symposium on March 23, 2016 at the U.S. Department of State

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...
ethiopia delegation blog

AWIU Delegation To Ethiopia Spreads Ethiopian Sentiment: BE KIND

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...
The 2016 IWOC Awardees at AWIU’s IWOC Celebration in Los Angeles

IWOC Celebration 2016: An Electric Evening for the “Sisters of Courage”

“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...
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International Women of Courage Celebration in Los Angeles for First Time

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...
chiapas delegation blog

AWIU Delegation to Chiapas Detailed Activity Report: November 11-19, 2015

American Women For International Understanding Delegation to Chiapas November 11-19, 2015 DELEGATES Andrea Bascon Robin Winter Odem Colleen Berk, Co Leader Barbara Rubio, Co Leader Barbara Disko Judith Russell Barbara...
pdi grant blog

AWIU Grantee Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) Grant Report

American Women For International Understanding provided grant to Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) in 2015 to help PDI impart life skills to adolescents in Nairobi Slums. Below is a progress report...
harriet fulbright blog

2016 AWIU Internationalism Award Recipient is Harriet M. Fulbright

“I believe that global education is one of the most powerful tools to improve nations by reducing poverty, sustaining economic growth, and helping build a more peaceful world. Relations between...

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