Women Awareness Center Nepal

Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), a non-profit, humanitarian organization with United Nations consultative status (ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI) collaborates with other organizations to establish new development paradigms that will advance the economic and social status of women. WWSF awards prizes each year to draw international attention to women's contributions to sustainable development, household food security, and peace, as well to attract international recognition and support for their community work. WWSF awarded Prativa Subedi a prize in 2011 for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life. 

Celebrating Womanhood, a women's organization that recognizes the work of great grassroots leaders, awarded Laxmi Tilmilsina for her excellent leadership and promotion of organic vegetable cultivation. After receiving the award, she spoke with The National Daily, Annapurna Post, about her work. She reported that the agricultural training she underwent at Nari Chetana Kendra (WACN) enabled her to become a leading figure in the agricultural field. Indeed, she has established an Agricultural Demonstration Farm where vistors from around the world come to study her methods. She now poses as a national model to other grassroots women, working part-time as a trainer.

Ashoka Innovators For the Public identifies and supports leading social entrepreneurs around the world. These are practical visionaries who have the entrepreneurial drive and creativity to transform the systems in their respective societies to bring about large-scale social change. Ashoka awarded Prativa Subedi a life-long fellowship in 1992 for her initiatives at Women Awareness Center Nepal (WACN) that help women develop their potential, gain self-confidence, and enter the public sphere as active members of society.