Latin Americans Working for Achievement (formerly the Latin American Women’s Association) is hosting an award ceremony for higher education scholarship recipients. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 10 at the Mint Museum Randolph. Among the scholarships awarded is the Deborah Aguiar-Velez Scholarship, in honor of a community member that passed away last year. In lieu of flowers, her family requested that donations were made to LAWA, among other local organizatio

Latin American Women's Association to become Latin Americans Working for Achievement The Latin American Women’s Association- an educational nonprofit- announced today that it will be changing its name to Latin Americans Working for Achievement. The name change reflects the organization’s commitment to expanding educational opportunities in the Latin American community, while retaining the colloquial abbreviation, LAWA. “As the Latino community has evolved in the south, parti