SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a show of solidarity and support to the thousands of people who lost loved ones, livelihoods and security as a result of the tsunami, the Global Fund for Women has reached out to all the women's rights organizations it supports in the affected region and has moved swiftly to award grants to several of its grantees.

Changemakers

Mayan Villalba, a member of the Global Fund Board of Directors, is Executive Director of Unlad-Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, one of the winners of The Changemakers Innovation Award. The Foundation won based on their ideas for creatively generating resources from a diversified citizen base.

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Global Fund grantees, advisors and board members are among the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Global Fund is honored to work with these extraordinary women, and we congratulate all of the nominees from around the world.

Africa Today, KPFA Radio, Berkeley

In honor of International Women's Day 2005, Program Officer for Africa, Muadi Mukenge was interviewed on KPFA radio along with Dorcas Coker-Appiah of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, Ghana, and Anne Wanjiru of GROOTS, Kenya, both Global Fund for Women grantees.

Listen to the podcast (58:38)