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AWIU Conversations: Shlama Foundation

Saturday, November 6, 2021 Shlama Foundation: Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Assyrian Chaldean Syriac People of Northern Iraq By Betsy Richman | December 19, 2021 The folkloric costumes that...

AWIU Conversations: I AM A GIRL

Saturday, October 23, 2021 I AM A GIRL: Empowering and Uplifting Women in Eastern Uganda By Betsy Richman | December 19, 2021 Desire Kiraboo, co-founder and executive director of I...

Burma through the Eyes of KhinSandi Lwin

Los Angeles Chapter Burma through the Eyes of KhinSandi Lwin: “GenZ -- We will be the last generation to live under this oppression” By Betsy Richman | December 19, 2021...

Teach English to Nepali Children

By Betsy Richman & Chun-Chieh Lin, December 1, 2021 Chun-Chieh Lin only joined AWIU a few months ago, but already she’s popular with the kids at the Modern Model Residential...

Afghanistan Stakeholders Town Hall Meeting

By Betsy Richman, December 01, 2021 On November 9, Washington, D.C. Chapter co-chair Eunice Reddick attended a State Department-organized “Afghanistan Resettlement Stakeholders Town Hall Meeting.” The virtual Town Hall...

Leslie Schweitzer speaking at AUAF benefit Oct 6 D.C.

Event Recap: American University of Afghanistan 2021 Annual Awards Dinner

By Betsy Richman AWIU President Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington Chapter Co-Chair Eunice Reddick and Passport Sydney West, an attorney and former Pentagon intern of Gfoeller, attended the American University of Afghanistan...

COIR Lite at the DACOR House in Washington DC

Career Opportunities in International Relations Presents: COIR Lite at the DACOR House COIR is back with two December 2021 luncheon conversations for AWIU Washington, D.C. chapter members, Passports and...

15th Annual International Women of Courage Celebration: Planning is Underway!

AWIU’s 2022 International Women of Courage Committee is excited to announce that planning is underway for the 15th Annual International Women of Courage Celebration. It is a privilege to commemorate...

Become a Reporter for AWIU

Information, information, information…it’s what we all crave. To create more communication currents across this vast country of ours, and to add to the ongoing connections with our grantees and International...

Case Study Kalikot Nepal

Case study: More Than Just a Grant Fifty-eight percent of residents in Kalikot, Nepal, live in deep poverty. Seventy-four percent of its girls are married by the age of 19...