FWAA moves beyond trophies to create opportunities for women

For more than a decade, the FINITE Magazine Women Appreciation Awards has handed out trophies to women across Lesotho, celebrating their contributions to business, community and profession. But Ntsepeng Tsita Tikiso, the awards’ founding architect, has grown impatient with the optics of celebration alone. “That criticism is valid when an awards programme begins and ends with presenting trophies,” she said flatly. “We have deliberately developed FWAA into a broader women’s economic empowerment platform.” Her point...