Women for Women International Recieves 2006 Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Prize, September 2006
Women for Women International is the recipient of the 2006 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest humanitarian prize of $1.5 million. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation presents the annual award to an organization that “significantly alleviates human suffering.”
“We are incredibly proud and grateful to receive the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and to be the first women’s organization recognized with this honor,” said Zainab Salbi, President and CEO of Women for Women International. “It reinforces our vision that stronger women build stronger nations and encourages us to work harder to bring the voices and concerns of the women we serve to the forefront.”
Read the press release in English
Read the press release in Albanian
"Creating Peace through Economic Opportunity in Kosovo," OutReach, Spring 2006
"Being a woman is hard, especially in war, when women are still expected to carry on their duties as if nothing has changed. A woman still must feed her children breakfast, lunch and dinner. But how? She is expected to wash the clothes. But how?"
Training Group Updates, December 2004
Read about how women in training groups in Janjeve and the country’s capital Prishtine are moving from victims to survivors to active citizens.
Although women in the Janjeve II group were eager to start the program, tensions from the war still existed, and initially Croatian and Roma women refused to interact with Albanian women during the sessions. However, after we explained that Women for Women International does not separate women of different ethnicities and that they must all learn to share opportunities, the situation calmed down significantly. Now, even though the women use different languages to communicate, they are able to share stories and learn from each at the discussions during the rights awareness and leadership education segment of the program …
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