Rural women awards

Seven of the 31 women awarded the 2001 global prizes for women s creativity in rural life work in Africa; prizes were scheduled for presentation in Geneva on 15 October World Rural Women s Day. Laureates include Joyce Vida Donkor (Ghana) for promoting beekeeping as a viable business activity, and Robertine Dembette (Chad) for organising women to lead seed saving, harvesting from the wild and environmental awareness under the motto Women take charge . Award details and guidelines for nominations for 2002 (before March 2002) from: Women s World Summit Foundation, PO Box 2001, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Fax: + 41 22 738 82 48 Email: prize@vtxnet.ch Website: www.woman.ch

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Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2001
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46300
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99598
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Summary:Seven of the 31 women awarded the 2001 global prizes for women s creativity in rural life work in Africa; prizes were scheduled for presentation in Geneva on 15 October World Rural Women s Day. Laureates include Joyce Vida Donkor (Ghana) for promoting beekeeping as a viable business activity, and Robertine Dembette (Chad) for organising women to lead seed saving, harvesting from the wild and environmental awareness under the motto Women take charge . Award details and guidelines for nominations for 2002 (before March 2002) from: Women s World Summit Foundation, PO Box 2001, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Fax: + 41 22 738 82 48 Email: prize@vtxnet.ch Website: www.woman.ch