STARS Foundation Award, October 2009

UK funding body Stars Foundation has awarded grants of $100,000 (£61,320) each to five grassroots organisations, including Mums for Mums, working in Africa and South Asia in recognition of their work. The charity's Impact Awards were presented last week by the London-based charitable foundation to projects which make a demonstrable difference to the lives of disadvantaged children. The Protection Award was presented to Ethiopian Mums for Mums for its innovative training programme which gives young women skills to earn a living and break the cycle of poverty.

Teberah Inquai, founder and executive director of Mums for Mums, who used to live in Cambridge, said: "If you educate a woman, you educate a family. The Stars award will help Mums for Mums to expand the work it is doing to empower destitute and vulnerable women to help themselves and their families.”

The three African winners, Teberah on the right

Teberah (centre) and Asenafi (right) from Mums4Mums

For more information about the Awards, see here.

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