U.S. Embassy Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer Pauline Anderson and AWE beneficiaries from the Philippines showcase Filipino products at the first-ever AWE Summit held from March 6 to 9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | photo contributed by the US Embassy
More than 200 businesswomen and AWE graduates from Brunei, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam attended the event. Launched by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in 2019, AWE is a hybrid program that combines the use of DreamBuilder—an online business training curriculum developed by Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management—with in-class mentoring and facilitation. Globally, the program has trained more than 25,000 women entrepreneurs in 100 countries.