AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business vol 4 | Page 15

Bibi Khadija
Annual Award Ceremony
Bibi Khadija Award Ceremony was
launched on November 19, 2015 for
the first time on the occasion of Inter-
national Women Entrepreneur’s Day.
This year the awards is considered for
provincial businesswomen of Afghan-
istan excluding Kabul. The application
form for competitive award was open
for two months in 33 provinces of the
country and at the end, more than 50
applications from 16 provinces were re-
ceived. The Selection Committee, com-
posed of the representatives from the
Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Ministry
of Industry and Commerce, AWCCI
and Afghanistan International Bank,
reviewed the applications and as a re-
sult, 15 top struggling businesswomen
from 13 provinces with the strongest
applications based on the criteria were
selected as 2019 awardees.
Fifth Bibi Khadija Annual Award Cer-
emony held on November 21, 2019 at
Kabul Serena. In this program, Ms.
Palwasha Amin, Advisor to the Ms.
Rula Ghani H.E. First Lady; H.E. Mr.
Mustafa Mastoor, Minister of Econo-
my; Ms. Shinkai Karokhil, Member of
Parliament; Ms. Sahar Hamdard, Head
of Engineering and Architectural Sys-
tem Development Authority at Minis-
try of Urban Development and Land;
Ms. Kamela Sediqi, Former Trade Dep-
uty Minister of Industry and Com-
merce; Ms. Shahrzad Hirji, Agha Khan
Ambassador; Mr. Maiel KhairKhah,
Chair of ACCI; Ms. Afsana Rahimi,
Chair of AWCCI; Asia Foundation
officials; Ambassadors and represent-
atives of Egypt, Swedish, Kazakhstan,
Australia, India, Indonesia, and Turkey
Embassies, European Union; Afghani-
stan International Bank and Ghazanfar
Bank, and First Micro Finance Bank
Officials, NHLP, MAIL officials, oth-
er national and international dignitar-
ies and more than 200 businesswomen
from Kabul and other provinces partic-
ipated.
At the first part, Ms. Palwasha Amin
on behalf of H.E. First Lady Office
congratulated Ms. Manizha Wafeq and
AWCCI’s board of directors for hold-
ing fifth Bibi Khadija Award Ceremo-
ny. She stated that H.E. First Lady once
again appreciated AWCCI for holding
this program and she expressed her
best wishes for AWCCI and awardees
of Bibi Khadija. She also added that
AWCCI as one of the entities that is
directly approved by Presidency Office
has always done positive and effective
activities.
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