Beyond 2000: "Helping Women
Help Themselves" is BPW International
Competition which is held every three years
at BPW International Congress since 1999.
The competition awards trophies and medals
to BPW Federations or BPW Clubs for the
projects that help women in ways which enable
them to sustain themselves in the future.
Type
of activities that qualified are those that
give women knowledge, education, skills,
advices, guidance opportunities, strength,
or other solutions to overcome crisis –
so that women can either establish or make
advancement in their businesses or professions.
Activities that are not qualified are charitable
activities like those that simply gave food
or money to help women.
Examples
of activities that qualified include professional
training for women, giving career guidance,
help rehabilitate abused women, mentoring,
help women find jobs, child care, training
skill for women, giving legal advises to
help women gain their independent, giving
education resources such as scholarships
and books, teach women and girls to read,
etc.
For
each competition, three years efforts are
assessed based on the number of women being
help and the impact on their life.
Awards
were given at the XXV BPW International
Congress in Luzern, Switzerland on 18 June
2005. For this competition, Panama won "Excellent
Country Effort" trophy for its work
on CrediMujer (microcredit) and skill training
for women in poverty. Three trophies are
given for Excellent Project. First place
was given to BPW Nepal's activities to help
women help themselves (which include literacy
training, skill training, microcredit and
day care center). Second place was given
to BPW Cyprus's Creation of the Women's
Cooperative Bank 'Initiative' Cyprus Ltd.
Third place was given to BPW Geelong, Australia's
"Scholarships and mentoring project".
For details on these winning projects, see
winners
of 2005, etc
See
competition details outlining awards,
rules, report format, evaluation criteria,
etc
Awards
were given at the XXIV BPW International
Congress in Melbourne, Australia in October
2002. At this competition, BPW Donetsk,
Ukraine won Excellent Country Effort Trophy
for helping over 9,000 women during 1999-2002.
BPW South Africa won “Excellent Project
Trophy” for “PHAMBILI –
Helping Domestics Violence Victims”
projects. Other countries that won Outstanding
BPW Medals include Korea, Mexico, Canada,
Cyprus, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand,
Mongolia, and Nepal. Young BPW from Germany
and Canada won Outstanding Young BPW Leaders
awards. Overall, winning projects from this
competition helped over 30,000 women to
help themselves during 1999-2002. See more
details about winners
in 2002, etc
Awards
were given at the XXIII BPW International
Congress in Vancouver, Canada in September
1999. Four countries participated in this
competition. At this competition, BPW Thailand
won both the “Excellent Country Effort
Trophy” and “Excellent Project
Trophy”. Overall, winning projects
from this competition helped over 1,100
women to help themselves during 1996-1999.
See more details about winners
in 1999, etc.
The
competition was initiated in 1997 by Dr.
Chonchanok Viravan (when she was a young
BPW Regional Coordinator for Asia-Pacific)
with the approval of the Past BPW International
President, Sylvia G. Perry. Originally,
there were 3 types of awards: Excellent
Country Effort trophy, Excellent Project
Trophy, and Outstanding BPW Medals. Outstanding
Young BPW Leaders was later added in the
Second competition. Certificate of Appreciation
was added to the Third competition, to be
given to BPW in countries that financially
support the winning projects in the competition.
The initial focus of the first competition
was on motivating BPW Federations and clubs
to recruit young member age 35 or under
(then called Young Career Women) and involved
them in the projects that help women to
help themselves. Thus, in the first competition,
it was originally required that young BPW
must participate in order for the projects
to enter the competition. This restriction
was later removed for the Second Competition.
However, involvement of young BPW is still
encouraged by (1) giving additional extra
credit to the projects which young BPW participated
(2) allow young BPW who lead the projects
that enter this competition to compete for
“Outstanding Young BPW Leaders”.
For more information,
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 |
