The WWSF (Women’s World Summit Foundation) Prize honors women and women’s groups around the world exhibiting exceptional creativity, courage and commitment for the improvement of the quality of life in rural communities.
The Prize aims to draw international attention to laureates’ contributions to sustainable development, household food security and peace, thus generating recognition and support for their projects.
Eligibility
- Nominees should be women and women’s groups currently active in rural life whose efforts have not yet been acknowledged by other awards. They may not nominate themselves.
- The nominating organization or individual must have direct experience of the nominee’s work. The nominator may not nominate a family member, be a member of the nominated organization, nor can an organization nominate its senior officer (i.e. founder, president etc.). No more than 3 nominees may be presented by the same person/organization in the same year. The nominator commits to organize an award ceremony if the candidate is selected for the Prize and invite the media.
Nominations to be submitted before 31 March 2011. For more information, visit this link.
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Samarasa organization in bidar Karnataka works on violence aganist women in 20 villages. If you support us in funds then we would like work in many other villages and we can do better and work hard on this project.
Palosa Welfare Organization, Palosa Sar Karak Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan is registered with directorate of Social Welfare Peshawar is newly developed organization. It works over developing living standard of the people of union council Palosa Sar by providing support to community people in educational, health, infrastructure etc. by mobilizing people to help themselves and others. Provision of community support especially in the areas where there is risk of destabilization like in case of emergency/accidents/death cases one has to arrange huge money, if is supported then he may be protected from destabilization. Currently we depends over membership fee, donation. If has some grant for our organization or some trainings opportunities like this for improving developmental skills of our individuals, will enable us for better performing the noble cause.