Since 2020, 350 Filipino women from all over the Philippines have received training and mentorship from the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a US-supported business learning program organized by the US Embassy in the Philippines and implementing partner Spark! Philippines.

'All of us know how much women business owners — both in the informal and formal sectors — contribute to and drive economic prosperity in the Philippines,' US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson said in her remarks at the first-ever AWE Philippines Summit on November 9 to mark the business training program's third anniversary.