BPW
International competition’s Beyond
2000: "Helping Women Help Themselves"
give global recognition to BPW clubs for
their efforts to help women in ways which
enable them to sustain themselves in the
future. The activities that qualified are
those that give women the knowledge, education,
skill, advice, guidance, opportunities,
strength, or other solutions to overcome
their crisis so that the women can establish
and/or advance their businesses or professions.
The competition also encourages young BPW
involvement.
The
Third competition covers the activities/projects
which is active during January 2002 –
October 2004. The awards will be presented
at BPW International XXV Congress in Luzern,
Switzerland in June 2005. SUBMISSION
DEADLINE is 31 DECEMBER 2004.
Winners in Luzern, 2005
Awards
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Excellent
Country Effort Trophy (1 award):
This award is for the country that
helps the highest number of women
in ways which have the highest impact.
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Excellent
Project (1 award): This award
is for the most innovative and highest
impact project that helps women help
themselves. |
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Outstanding
BPW Medals (unlimited awards):
This award is for BPW club help at
least 200 women to help themselves
(or score equivalent to helping 200
women). |
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Outstanding
young BPW leader (1 award):
This award is given to young BPW leaders
who lead a project which is submitted
for this competition, and have outstanding
accomplishments to illustrate her
leadership. |
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Certificates
of Appreciations will be
given to BPW clubs or federations
that participate in this competition
and those who support winners of trophies/medals
through twinning or funding supports.
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How
The assistances to help
women help themselves are those that give
women the knowledge, education, skill, advice,
guidance, opportunities, strength, or other
solutions to overcome their crisis so that
the women can establish and/or advance their
businesses or professions. For examples,
the following would count as "Helping
Women Help Themselves" activities.
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TRAIN
- women with skill to earn a living.
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TEACH
- women how to read, how to manage business,
etc. |
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MENTOR
- women to advance their career. |
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FIND
JOBS - or help identify job
opportunities for women. |
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LOAN
- women seed funding to start their
businesses. |
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PREVENT
- exploitation of young women. |
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LOBBY
- to enhance women’s legal right. |
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CHILD
CARE - for working mother. |
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REHABITATE
- abused women. |
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GIVE
- educational resource such as books,
scholarships. |
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… AND
many other creative projects! |
In
general, charitable activities that simply
give women temporary relief would not count.
When the assistant is to give money or things,
there are fine line on what’s count
and what does not count. For examples, giving
loans for women to start their businesses
and giving scholarship to enable girls to
go to school would count as "helping
women help themselves" activities (as
it gives opportunities for women), but a
donation to charity or handing out money
would not count. Giving books for school
and teaching women literacy would count
(as it gives knowledge), but giving food
and clothing would not.
This
is by no means stating that charity work
is not important, but what distinguish BPW
International from other women organization
is our focus on promoting women in their
businesses and professions. So the activities
that support this purpose is what being
encourage here.
Examples
of Winning Projects in 1999
Examples of
Winning Projects in 2002
Rules
1. |
Activities
that qualify for this competition
must be those that help women (of
any ages) to sustain themselves in
the future. |
2. |
Charitable
activities which give temporary relief
would not be qualified for this competition.
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3. |
Activities
are conducted during January 2002
to October 2004. |
4. |
Activities
must be conducted as BPW projects
(not projects that BPW members did
for other women organizations). Activities
conducted by a company owned solely
by BPW members is admissible only
if they are not earning money for
a company. |
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5. |
Projects
with young BPW participation will
be given special credits. |
Report Format
1. |
The
report should specify: |
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- Name of BPW club / Federation
- Name of BPW president
- Name of project(s)
- Description of the projects/events
- Duration: starting date - ending
date
- Impact of the project:
- Number women being helped.
- The impact on these women
over time.
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- Evidence (e.g. photographs,
video).
- Names of particated young BPW
members (optional).
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2. |
Each
report shall not exceed 4 pages. |
3. |
One
BPW club or federation may include
multiple projects within one report.
However, a project to compete for
Excellent Project Trophy must be submitted
one report per project. |
4. |
If
a young BPW led a project that submitted
for this competition, her CV / bio-data
should also be submitted. |
Submission Deadline
1. |
The
report should be submitted via e-mail
to Dr. Chonchanok Viravan, chair of
Adjudicators, at chonchanok.viravan@bpw-international.org
by 31 December 2004 |
2. |
Supporting
evidence such as photographs, newspaper
clippings, publications can be submitted
in one of the following ways:
- a. E-mail to chonchanok.viravan@bpw-international.org,
OR
- Indicate URL of web sites that
display the supporting evidences,
OR
- Mail to:
Chonchanok Viravan, PhD.
Chair of Adjudicators for "Beyond
2000: Helping Women Help Themselves"
Competition
46 Soi Sukumvit 61
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
THAILAND
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Evaluation
- Number of women receiving help
- Duration of help
- Impact on people's lifes
The
country that received the highest total
score for all their activities would receive
the Excellent Country Effort Trophy. The
project that received the highest score
would receive the Excellent Project Trophy.
The club that helps at least 200 women or
score equivalent to helping 200 women (to
be defined by adjudicators) will received
Outstanding BPW medal. Extra credit shall
be given to activities that involved young
BPW members.
Young
BPW who led projects submitted for this
competition shall be evaluated base on both
the performance in the project and their
past accomplishments that exhibit leadership
ability.
Notification
of Winners
The winners will be
informed at least 6 weeks prior to XXV BPW
Congress in Luzern, Switzerland to facilitate
their participations in the award ceremonies.
Contact Information
If you have further
questions, know of activities by a BPW Club
that deserve recognition, want to see sample
projects from past competition, please contact:
Chonchanok Viravan,
PhD.
Chair of Adjudicators for "Beyond 2000:
Helping Women Helps Themselves" competition
Tel: +66-2-3917843; Fax: +66-2-3912120
E-mail: chonchanok.viravan@bpw-international.org |
