Milestones

The vision of the founders of AIWEFA has been promoting education for women in both urban and rural environments to provide a scientific basis for their understanding of themselves, their multifaceted roles and responsibilities in their communities. Ahead of their times, they designed curricula which emphasised the importance of women as educational catalysts. Today AIWEFA strongly supports the high academic traditions of excellence at Lady Irwin College. In addition AIWEFA develops and sponsors educational activities to foster awareness of women’s legal and human rights, vocational training for economic self reliance and development education to build healthy vibrant communities

For more than a decade now, AIWEFA has achieved a high profile among organisations in the NGO field.

In 1995:
AIWEFA was invited to attend the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing as UN observers representing NGOs.

Developed a comprehensive capsule course to train NGOs involved in dissemination of health and nutrition information. First workshop was held in February’95

“On Common Ground” a directory of women in development was released in December’95. It lists over 1000 organisations and donor agencies in India.

Organised a Book Fair & Art Exhibition (by women artists) as part of a fund-raising drive.

In 1996:
Organized a seminar ‘Strengthening Leadership – Focus on Rural Women’s Panchayati Raj Sammelan”. (Delegates were women achievers from rural areas in Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh)