
In November 2007, The Arab Women’s Fund was officially launched in Amman, Jordan, following a alsdlj;asjfl;as three-year planning process. Women from across the Arab world came together in a response to the need to build an independent, regionally driven source of funding to support and promote women’s efforts for social change. Our collective experience showed that women have ideas, but lack the funds to implement them. Women have knowledge, but lack the opportunity to apply it. The region is changing, but not taking advantage of its full potential. Women from business, finance, and the women’s movements in the Arab world recognize these gaps and established The Arab Women’s Fund in the service of the change they want to see.
The Arab Women’s Fund is fortunate to have received launch support from a warm circle of colleagues.
§ Eve Ensler for walking the path beside us, and for the unwavering support of V-DAY.
§ Karama for laying the foundation on which
The Arab Women¹s Fund is now being built.
§ The Arab Women Investors Union
http://www.unionai.org/new/index.asp whose members have extended a welcoming hand.
§ The Open Society Institute, Mama Cash, Kvinna till Kvinna whose sustained financial and political support of Karama has provided the bedrock on which the Fund is now being built.
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