Congratulations to Towera Neba on obtaining her MBA! After earning a degree in economics, her experience with women entrepreneurs motivated her to pursue an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, giving her the skills to understand better and address their business challenges. Now, as the Women Creating Wealth Country Coordinator in Malawi, Towera brings valuable insights, guidance, and technical expertise to enhance the program and support entrepreneurs in achieving their goals. She said, “Working with women entrepreneurs inspired me to study for an MBA to help the entrepreneurs we serve better.”
Faith Namalwa, our Women Creating Wealth Youth Lead and the owner of Glam and Poppy Accessories, was recently honoured as a Gold Winner in the Fashion Accessories category at the KE Digitally Fit Awards 2024 (East Africa Edition). This prestigious recognition celebrates brands that are making a meaningful impact online. In addition, Faith was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for her outstanding achievements. We are incredibly proud of her success and grateful for your continued support on this journey!
Dalree de Lange, Senior Officer for our Adolescent Girls’ Movement, represented the Trust at The Amazon Leadership Initiative (TheALI) Annual Leadership Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme Black Girl, Your Dreams Are Valid. She was chosen for her leadership, passion, and commitment to supporting and inspiring young female leaders in public, business, and civic spheres. Dalree embodies our Adolescent Girls’ Movement mission—to help girls recognise their brilliance and find their voices. The forum highlighted the power of women leaders in shaping Africa’s future. Now is the time to turn ideas into action and drive meaningful change!
The Trust supports and mobilises civil society networks on issues of ending child marriage, ending violence against children, ending female genital mutilation and promoting children’s rights, to carry out advocacy and action across Africa. Special focus is placed on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia where child marriage continues to be a problem largely driven by poverty, gender inequality, harmful traditional practices, conflict, low levels of literacy, limited opportunities for girls and weak or non-existent protective and preventive legal frameworks.
Education is a fundamental right for all children, which is also a vehicle for social, economic and political transformation in communities, countries and the African continent at large. Recent studies indicate a lack of progress in some of the critical commitments aimed at improving education quality, access, retention and achievement, particularly for girls. In most African countries, girls may face barriers to learning, especially when they reach post-primary levels of education. By implementing multi-dimensional approaches to education which includes core education, personal development, life skills and economic competencies, the Trust partners with funding partners, governments, civil societies and the private sector to improve education access.
The Nutrition and Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition, (RMNCAH+N) of the Children’s Rights and Development Programme aims at promoting the Global Strategy for women, children and adolescents’ health within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. The strategy emphasises on the importance of effective country leadership as a common factor across countries making progress in improving the health of women, children and adolescents.
Through its Early Childhood Development (ECD) plan, The Trust will seek to put into action the new science and evidence Report that was presented by Lancet Series on Good and early development – the right of every child. This will be achieved by mobilising like-minded partners to contribute in the new science and evidence to reach all young children with ECD. The Trust’s goal is to be a catalyst for doing things differently, in particular, to rid fragmentation and lack of coordination across ECD sectors. In response to evidence showing the importance of political will in turning the tide against the current poor access and quality of ECD. Even before conception, starting with a mother’s health and social economic conditions, the early years of a child’s life form a fundamental foundation that determines whether a child will survive and thrive optimally.