Venus Awards Competitors

In countries affected by conflict and war, Women for Women International supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, she is able to create sustainable change for herself, her family, and community. Since 1993, Women for Women International (WfWI) has provided women survivors of war, and conflict with resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency. WfWI delivers these resources through a tiered, yearlong program that begins with direct financial aid and emotional support. Participants also learn about their legal rights; receive life-skills training such as health awareness, numeracy, budgeting and saving, decision-making and negotiation, and civic participation; learn business and vocational skills; and gain access to income-generating activities where they can apply those skills and begin moving towards economic stability. Along with helping more than 478,000 women in the past 20 years to rebuild their own lives and those of their families and communities after war, WfWI uses its voice to call global attention to the unique role that women play in advancing peace throughout society. WfWI works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Sudan. To learn more, please visit www.womenforwomen.org.

FW is a national platform supporting women to find jobs and build careers.

WE KNOW chatting to someone over a meal or a coffee can oil the wheels of co-operation and commerce as much, if not more than an expensive advertising campaign and it’s always so much more comfortable calling up someone you already know than someone you don’t. WHO ARE WE? A networking organisation for like-minded women from the fields of finance, law, graphic, interior and garden design, the arts and education, dental, medical and remedial practice together with a whole raft of entrepreneurs offering skills and services ranging from painting to printing to payroll, from data-base to dinner-party catering and from decorating to de-cluttering.