Tuesday, May 22, 2007

AWOD Name Changed to AWOE

Since July of 2006, nominations have been coming to us and we have began the reviewing process! It has become apparent that an underlying theme about the stories of these remarkable women is that they are change agents empowering their communities and countries. For this reason, the African Women of Distinction (AWOD) project is changing its name to African Women of Empowerment (AWOE) Project. The mission has stayed the same, as have the web site, blogs and email address; we have only replaced “Distinction” with “Empowerment”.

By changing the name we felt that we were including ALL women in the project, even those that won’t be featured in the final project. I know it will be difficult for our Selection Committee to narrow down to just 20 women!

Thank you for your continued support and we will have more updates very soon, including the names and stories of the 20 women!!

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DJ Bradley
Seattle, WA USA
AWOE Intern