PAWA Champions

PAWA Champions are generous supporters who fund-raise for PAWA by setting up challenges for themselves

They might participate in a charity swim, a bike ride or a marathon, or explore their creative sides by hosting a charity gourmet dinner, a music soiree or a cake sale.

Being a PAWA Champion is fun. Engage your family and friends in Something Meaningful.

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A Celebration of Women Composers in Classical Music

In November 2023, cellist William Lui organised and directed a concert featuring four young musicians to raise funds for PAWA. The programme was entitled \"A Celebration of Women Composers in Classical Music

Clare Muhiudeen

Clare Muhiudeen, one of PAWA’s founding Charter members and Managing Director at Towers Watson, swam 2.2km in the Jax Sheko Challenge in Hong Kong and raised £1688.75.

Diana Chan

Honorary Council

Diana has been a PAWA supporter since 2012, and an active fundraiser for PAWA through the years. She was formerly CEO of EuroCCP, a financial services company that processed half of all trades in European stocks. After retirement, she served on the Board of Directors of Euroclear SA/NV and on

Diocesan Old Girls’ Association (DOGA UK)

Diocesan Old Girls’ Association (DOGA UK) is an alumni group for former students and staff of Diocesan’s Girls’ School Hong Kong who live or study in the UK and they raised £100 from their Chinese New Year Luncheon raffle.

Elizabeth Phillips

Elizabeth Phillips, a 6th form student donated her prize of £250 for receiving the Westminster School Best Musician of the Year 2015.

Grace Lau

A big thank you to Grace Lau for donating her £100 fee from a photography workshop, “Interpreting the Contemporary Portrait” that she held at the Battle Photographic Society. Using her book “21st Century Types” which is of portraits of Hastings visitors and inhabitants posing in a constructed Victorian portrait studio, the

Irwan Mihat

PAWA’s purpose to raise funds for girls’ education in Asia inspires many far and wide. And it’s not just women who want to support the hopes and dreams of girls across Asia. Men are as much part of the PAWA family of supporters as women. This year, Wes Masters and Irwan Mihat are running the

Jonathan Collyear and Harry Verden

PAWA Runners, Jonathan Collyear and Harry Verden took part in the London Marathon to raise money. Between them, they raised just over £6500 towards the cost of building a Floating School. PAWA and Learning for Life are collaborating on a project to improve access to secondary education for 30-60 teenage girls from very

Julian Verden

Julian Verden, the Chairman of ISTA (International Steel Traders Association) selected PAWA as The Chairman’s Charity for their Annual Lunch this year. The event was well attended with 550 ISTA members and their guests who donated close to £10,000 in support of PAWA. We set an ISTA record for the

KUALA LUMPUR SPEAKERS CLUB

The KLSC in London is part of an organisation in Kuala Lumpur that was founded 55 years ago by Tunku Dara Naquiah to give women experience in public speaking. They run public speaking workshops and speech making sessions. The branch in London meet regularly and to mark Eid this year,

NANDA KHIARA

A huge thank you to artist Nanda Khiara for donating a limited-edition stretched canvas print of her original artwork, Whispering Blossoms, to sell to raise funds for PAWA’s 15th anniversary year. She has also offered to donate 50% of the proceeds further limited edition prints in aid of PAWA’s fund for teenage

Oakwood School

Oakwood School in Surrey became the first PAWA School Champion in September 2016 when the children raised an incredible £177.40 from their own pocket money and piggy banks after hearing a talk about our work to help send impoverished girls to school in Asia. Thanks to the children’s generosity, this is

Paul Lau

Paul Lau marked his 60th birthday on 12th December 2015 by organising a special Musical Soiree with several of his musician friends and raised £1192.50 for PAWA.

Roger Owen

Roger Owen, our first male PAWA Friend, celebrated his 80th birthday on 6th May 2016 with a special fundraiser at Providores restaurant with a bespoke menu created by chef Peter Gordon and Roger’s wife, Sri Owen. The evening raised over £1600.

Ruihua Wang

Ruihua completed a duathlon (it was meant to be a triathlon but changed due to poor water quality) in aid of PAWA . She raised £176.25 which will help support the education of 7 PAWA girls for a year.

Sir Thomas Harris

Sir Thomas Harris, kindly donated his fee of £300 for a talk that he did at the Korean Embassy. Sir Thomas served in the Diplomatic Service, notably as British Ambassador in Korea, Britain’s Consul General in New York, and the UK’s Director-General for Trade and Investment in the USA. He recently retired

Sri Owen

Sri Owen, a freelance food and cookery writer, a cookery teacher, and a food consultant, celebrated her 80th birthday on 31st March 2015 with a special fundraiser for PAWA and raised £1877.50. In 2014, Sri raised £80 for PAWA by hosting a delicious “Indonesian food demonstration and lunch” at her home for 6 PAWA supporters. Sri and

Sybil Poon

PAWA Benefactor Sybil Poon celebrated her Special Birthday in style. Husband Patrick hosted a beautiful lakeside lunch on the grounds of Brocket Hall. The sumptuous lunch was followed by a surprise music performance and disco dancing! Sybil donated her birthday gifts £1900 to PAWA.

Theo Verden

Congratulations to Theo for celebrating his 16th birthday by raising enough funds to support 16 PAWA girls for a year, a total of £384.

WARIS ALBAKRI

With a group of 8 other young men, Waris climbed the 3 Peaks of Britain - Snowdonia, Scafell Peak to show their support for teenage girls education and raised £750 with gift aid. Fantastic achievement !

Wes Masters

The PAWA supporter family ranges far and wide. Both women and men who feel passionately about supporting girls’ education across Asia are part of the Pan Asian Women’s Association, raising funds for this valuable cause. Wesley Masters is one of two PAWA supporters running the 2018 London Marathon to help

WRAP London

London womenswear brand WRAP supported PAWA on International Women's Day 2025 through the sale of beautifully designed T-shirts. WRAP created an exclusive print featured on a limited-edition linen jersey t-shirt with a design which captures a spirit of love, unity and being stronger together. A total of £13,000 was raised! All proceeds were given to PAWA

Yang May Ooi

Yang May Ooi wrote and performed “Bound Feet Blues – a life told in shoes” at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2015 and kindly offered an exclusive evening for PAWA supporters. The evening ended with a Q&A with Yang May and the director Jessica Higgs plus a Xmas supper reception

Pure Water

Millions of people around the world live under a lower scale of poverty. They do not get pure, safe and sound drinking water. So we are trying to serve them pure health water for their better future.

Healthy Food

In today's world we know that many people do not get their food daily. It is very difficult for us in today's world that people do not get their food. So we opened a project called "No people will die without eating"

Medical Facilities

People in Africa, Philistine, afghanistan, Livia and many other countries are not getting the proper medical treatment. So we have open a slogan and a project called “people will not suffer for medical treatment”

Education

Education is the backbone of a nation. But many children do not get a chance to go to school due to their poverty. So we are raising funds for a project called education for everyone and every child will go to school.

PAWA Champions

PAWA Champions are generous supporters who fund-raise for PAWA by setting up challenges for themselves

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