WASHINGTON — Fortune honors Hanan Khalil and Tidings Chimpondah with the Global Women Leaders Award for their leadership in their respective homes at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit Tuesday.
Khalil, the founder of Zahraa Trade, a pharmaceuticals company in Egypt, will be using her grant from the award to teach skills to sub-saharan refugee girls about the business of craft and design.
Chimpondah, the managing director of Progroup Holdings, an agro-processing business, will be expanding her non-profit, “Moms Are Geniuses,” empowering women to raise livestock for a living.
Both awardees were a part of Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Women” program aimed at training, mentoring and providing networking opportunities for female entrepreneurs.
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