Press coverage on award-winning NAWEM members

How do you obtain funding - for business or otherwise?

Well, you can become so good and go win some awards...as proven by two NAWEM members who received $100k each with their Prime Minister's Awards recently.

Reproduced below is The Star Online report of the award ceremony or you can go read it directly at this link - http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/9/26/nation/9574995&sec=nation

The parts on our NAWEM members are highlighted in bold print (my doing). By the way, one of them, Hooi Lai Lin, is coming to Penang Oct 8 to share her success story with other women entrepreneurs.

Get your ticket to the "Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs" event NOW, if you haven't yet.
   

Monday September 26, 2011

Cheshire Home president wins Woman Social Activist award

KUALA LUMPUR: The Cheshire Home management was all smiles when the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry bestowed the Prime Minister’s Woman Social Activist award on its president Datin Paduka Khatijah Suleiman for her outstanding work at the home.

The award includes a RM100,000 prize.

Khatijah said the prize money would be invaluable in expanding the home’s programmes for helping the disabled and disadvantaged.

She said the organisation ran its programmes at six houses located throughout the country.
She was among 11 women activists and entrepreneurs honoured last night by the ministry for work in their respective fields.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the award would encourage Malaysian women to strive to greater heights.

“I suggested the award to encourage icons. We always need iconic figures to inspire others to achieve greatness themselves,” he said during the award ceremony yesterday.

The Woman Entrepreneur Award was bestowed on Hooi Lai Lin for her work in running a company dealing in chemicals. She also received RM100,000.

Nine other women who made the shortlist received RM20,000 each.

Minister Datuk Seri Sharizat Abdul Jalil said the Social Activist candidates were chosen not just by their individual success but by the impact of their programmes to the community and the effort put in to running those programmes.

She said candidates for the Woman Entrepreneur category were chosen based on the success of their business as well as their ethics in doing business.

Also present at the event were the Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Sime Darby Bhd chairman Tun Musa Hitam.