Pakistan’s Christina Peter won the World Women’s Summit Foundation Award for her work for the welfare of rural women.
The award was given to Christina Peter by the World Women Summit Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland on the occasion of International Women’s Day for her work for the welfare of rural women.
Christina Peter is one of the 4 women who have received this award while 476 women leaders from 122 countries of the world were nominated for this award.
Christina Peter started an NGO in 1994 named Association for Women’s Awareness and Rural Development to educate rural women about their rights.
During the last 27 years, under this NGO, she has been able to open 130 vocational training schools in 130 villages of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where girls who cannot go to school due to poverty are given skills and education.
She continues to educate men about women’s rights, but she also educates about the effects of early marriage in rural areas, in which she has been quite successful because now in the environment there A lot of change is beginning to be seen.
