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AWIU
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE #2, MARCH 2009 Click Above Link
AWIU Sponsors
2009 Women of
Courage Banquet
AWIU's Banquet Honoring the 2009
Women of Courage Awardees was a great Success!
March 10, 2009, AWIU hosted the 8 U.S.
Department of State Women
of Courage awardees at a banquet held at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.
The banquet’s theme, “Women’s
Partnership for a Better World”, was highlighted by the Women of Courage
awardees and by a panel of distinguished women.
 
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The AWIU GRANT FUND provided $1,000 grants to each of The Women of Courage
honorees who represented the countries of Afghanistan,
Iraq, Guatemala, Uzbekistan,
Malaysia, Niger, Russia
and Yemen. These grants will be used to assist with
programs in the recipient’s country.
In addition to the grant awards, a distinguished panel
spoke. The panel was moderated by Clare Crawford-Mason, former NBC
senior producer and a founding editor of People Magazine.
The panel members were Shamim Jawad, wife of the Afghanistan Ambassador to the United
States; Charlotte (Charlie) Ponticelli, former
Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, and Colleen Graffy,
LLM, Law Professor and Director of Global Programs, Pepperdine University,
School of Law.
AWIU also awarded their Bernice Behrens Founder’s Award to Joanne
Kumamoto, former President of AWIU and former chair of Los Angeles Regional
Group. The AWIU Internationalism Award Recipient was Doris Buffett, Founder
and President of the Sunshine Lady Foundation.
In 2008 and 2009 AWIU and the Sunshine Lady Foundation awarded
$40,000 to train midwives in remote areas of Afghanistan with the intent to
lower infant mortality rates in the area.
Follow this link to see the bios on the distinguished International
Women of Courage for 2009 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/03/120070.htm
This banquet is only one of a number of AWIU program. AWIU has chapters throughout the United States
and has a chapter in cyberspace. We
encourage and celebrate connections between people and between nations.
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