EMPOWER Foundation Grant



Organization - EMPOWER Foundation
Grant Amount - $100,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - in continued support of a project to enable cross-border sharing of strategies and approaches to reduce vulnerability and HIV risk among ethnic and mobile women in emerging entertainment settings in Lao PDR and Yunnan Province of China


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