By Stacy Dry Lara | Executive Director
Founded in 1919, GWI's mission is to promote and advocate for the right to quality and safe lifelong education for girls and women at all levels, to advocate for the advancement of the status of girls and women, and to enable women and girls to apply their knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making in all forms of public and private life.
To further this mission GWI offers the Hegg Hoffet fund that assists graduate women who have been displaced as a result of war, political upheaval or other serious emergencies. The Hegg Hoffet fund offers:
Recently, GWI paid for a legal practice course for a young woman who had been relocated to the United Kingdom due to conflict her her home country. Support for such classes embodies the very mission of the GWI Hegg Hoffet program and we are ever-grateful to our donors.
With Gratitude!!
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