Bahá’í wins “Women helping women” award
16 July 2008
No CommentUnited states:- The Principal Representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the United Nations, Bani Dugal, has received a “Women Helping Women” award from Soroptimist International. The award came in weeks leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8. “Women Helping Women” is one of three awards offered under an umbrella program, “Making a Difference for Women,” established in 1986 by the Soroptimists to acknowledge those who work to improve the status of women in society. Soroptimist International is a 70-year-old volunteer service organization for women.
Ms. Dugal’s “sensitivity and success at gender and intercultural relations are at the center of her ability not only as a woman helping women, but also helping women, collaboratively, to help other women,” said Linda Stillman, chairperson of the awards ceremony. Noting that Ms. Duagl was recently selected to chair the NGO Committee at the United Nations, Ms. Stillman called her “a testament to diplomatic decorum steeped in her spiritual soul.”
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