PEWA AWARDS @ ad3 2004
PEWA, the Swahili word for making an offering, also stands for People Earnestly Working for Africa. The PEWA awards acknowledge and reward `Africa's biggest aid donors' - Africans outside the continent and their organizations. The first PEWA awards will be presented at a special evening reception at this year's African Diaspora and Development Day (ad3) on July 3rd held in City Hall's London's Living Room.
The search is on to select those working hardest for Africa so they can be honoured at this glitzy event. You know who they are. They work in small groups (home town associations, alumni groups, civil society organizations etc), achieving much, with little or no money.
Sometimes they have rebuilt their old schools back in Africa or sent back books and other resources. Other times they send medical equipment to hospitals, undertake pressing relief work, or lobby on behalf of various issues. In the UK they run much needed projects around immigration/asylum, they help to resettle new migrants, offer innovative training, language and other cultural programmes, or work in dynamic ways with the young people from their communities.
PEWA AWARDS Nomination Form
Here's your chance to get your organization recognized. Nominate your choice of organization or individual in the five categories below, giving their name and one line why you feel this organization or person should win the award. Please include details of a contact name, number or website if known, of the individual/organization.
• PEWA Award for African Development (development by Home Town Associations etc)

• PEWA Award for Best African Business (Emphasizing those promoting African goods)

• PEWA Award for Promoting African Culture (Cultural organizations or individuals projecting images of Africa)

• PEWA Young African Award
• PEWA African Campaigning/Media Personality Award (People like Rageh Omar, June Sarpong, Patti Boulaye, Nwankwo Kanu, Henry Bonsu, Waris, Iman, Zenab Badawi, , Alek Wek, Benny McCarthy, Graca Machel, or any others you can think of)
We also need your name and a contact telephone number, email or address.
Closing date for nominations June 26th 2004. Please send completed form to PEWA Awards, 31-33 Bondway, Vauxhall, London SW8 1SJ or Fax: 020 7587 3919/ email: [email protected] [2]
Your friends can also make nominations by visiting our:
• our website www.afford-uk.org [3]
or
• e-mailing us at [email protected] [4]
PEWA awards are organised by africa21 for African Diaspora and Development Day (ad3).
The following 9 africa21 members are not eligible for the awards:
Abantu for Development; African Foundation for Development; African Foundation Stone; Akina Mama wa Afrika; Black International Construction Organization; Diaspora; Horn Reflections; Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa; and Sierra Leone Women's Forum.