{"id":167576,"date":"2021-11-03T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167576"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:23:41","slug":"bhd-leon-bank-womens-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/bhd-leon-bank-womens-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"BHD Leon Bank women&#8217;s awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"670\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-03-at-2.22.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-03-at-2.22.29-PM.png 670w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-03-at-2.22.29-PM-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BHD Leon Bank announced the winners of its annual contest, &#8220;Women Who Change the World Award.&#8221; The prize recognizes the life path and social causes of women in the Dominican Republic. It is in its sixth year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Daisy Acosta, a geriatrician and psychiatrist, won first place for her work as a scientific researcher and creator of the country&#8217;s first National Brain Bank. She is also recognized as past president of the World Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, an organization that granted her the honorary vice-president in perpetuity. She received a RD$1 million cash prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a, First Lady Raquel Arbaje and Minister of Women Mayra Jim\u00e9nez were present for the ceremony held at the Hotel El Embajador on 2 November 2021. The awards were delivered by Luis Molina Ach\u00e9car, president of BHD Le\u00f3n and Steven Puig, executive president of Banco BHD Leon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This celebration has a double meaning: one is to recognize the courage of women who change the world, because not even a pandemic stops them, and the other is to highlight that our Dominican Republic has women who strive and work for the common good. Today we are going to recognize eleven of them,&#8221; said Steven Puig, executive president of Banco BHD Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 100 applications were submitted to the BHD Le\u00f3n. In addition to Daisy Acosta, the bank also gave awards to Evelyn Peniche, Jalenny Mart\u00ednez, Liquedia Ventura, Margarita Mayer, Mar\u00eda C\u00e1ceres (Chachy), Mar\u00eda Peralta (Mam\u00e1 Chicha), Mar\u00eda Trinidad Ayala (Sister Trini) and Ramona Ure\u00f1a (Quina).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jurors were Claudia Catrain, specialist in corporate social responsibility; Huchi Lora, journalist; Mar\u00eda Amalia Le\u00f3n, executive director of the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes Foundation; Mercedes Ramos, president of the Ramos Group; Oscar Villanueva, president of the Fundaci\u00f3n Qui\u00e9reme Como Soy; Soledad \u00c1lvarez, philologist and poet, and Steven Puig, president of the jury and executive president of Banco BHD Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/11\/03\/695175\/premian-a-mujeres-que-cambian-el-mundo\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mujeresquecambianelmundo.com.do\/\"><br>Mujeres que cambian el mundo <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intec.edu.do\/en\/notas-de-prensa-egresados\/item\/egresada-destacada-del-intec-es-finalista-del-premio-mujeres-que-cambian-el-mundo-del-banco-bhd-leon\">Intec <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BHD Leon Bank announced the winners of its annual contest, &#8220;Women Who Change the World Award.&#8221; The prize recognizes the life path and social causes of women in the Dominican Republic. It is in its sixth year. Dr. Daisy Acosta, a geriatrician and psychiatrist, won first place for her work as a scientific researcher &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/bhd-leon-bank-womens-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167642,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167576\/revisions\/167642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}