Every year the Federated Women’s Institute of Canada (FWIC) supports a project for the ACWW.

This year their chosen project was a workshop entitled CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS EFFECT ON WOMEN AND GIRLS- WOMEN AS CHANGE AGENTS. Grenada home makers applied to ACWW and Canada area for funding for themselves, nine other societies and three observer societies to conduct this workshop. Since the workshop was being held in Grenada and lasting 3 days, it was decided to hold the Caribbean, South and Central America ACWW conference in the same week.

This funding was granted in order that two people from Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Columbia, Brazil and four from Grenada. Two were also from Barbados, Suriname and St Kitts (observer societies). Unfortunately health emergencies in three countries prevented some representatives from attending:  Colombia and Brazil due to a serious outbreak of H1N1 flu and cholera in the Dominican Republic

   The training received by the trainees will enable them to raise the standard of life for their families. This project cost $10,000 and was borrowed from another ACWW fund. So far as of August 2011, $2,000 had been raised.