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Promoting Careers in International Relations for Women – AWIU’s COIR Symposium on April 19, 2017

Awiu In Collaboration With U.S. Department of State Presents 3rd Annual Symposium on Career Opportunities for International Relations American Women for International Understanding (AWIU) in collaboration with the U.S. Department...
Lusaka grant blog

Grant report from AWIU grantee: Women’s Entrepreneur Program (in partnership with The Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City Committee) in Lusaka, Zambia

The prominent African American Scientist, Inventor, and Botanist George Washington Carver once said, ‘Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” Joyce Nkausu, the Grocer had a vision to...
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Mellody Hobson to be Honorary Chair of the International Women of Courage Celebration 2017

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...
HVWA grant blog

AWIU Provides a Grant to Humane Voluntary Welfare Association (HVWA)

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...
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AWIU Provides Grant To Hope In Life Foundation

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...
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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...

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