Eliza Chikoti from Malawi and Natasha Lwanda from Zambia traveled to represent our movement at a leadership symposium for a select group convened by the Obama Foundation.
CAMFED is a longstanding member of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, an Obama Foundation program that aims to empower adolescent girls through education to achieve their full potential, and transform their families, communities, and countries.
It was a great platform, bringing education champions across the world together to share best practices and support one another. We must celebrate our successes and the wins we’re making in our communities. It’s not a one-man show, to change the world, it’s a collaborative effort.Eliza Chikoti, CAMFED Association leader, Malawi
Young leaders like Eliza and Natasha are stepping up to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time. The convening was designed to support them to exchange ideas, workshop solutions, and build connections. President Obama was in attendance to learn about the challenges leaders face, and opportunities to advance their work.
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What I learned from President Obama is that leadership is a relay race. Each of us is running and we have to know that there is someone to pass the baton to. We cannot do this single-handedly. Most of the challenges that we’re looking at are big challenges that cannot be solved in this year or even in 10 years to come, but as long as we’re making progress, then we should know our efforts are working.Natasha Lwanda, CAMFED Association leader, Zambia
CAMFED Association members Barbara Mensah from Ghana, Dorcas Lukwesa from Zambia, Chelsea Chamara from Zimbabwe and Getruda Amos from Tanzania joined former First Lady Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates, Amal Clooney, Wanjiru Wahome and Sara Sidner at an exclusive luncheon at the Manhattan Center in New York City to launch the Obama Foundation Girls Opportunity Alliance's "Get Her There" campaign.
Today, Michelle Obama's Girls Opportunity Alliance announced CAMFED as one of its non-profit collaborators on a new initiative to educate and empower more girls.
From July 10th-15th in Johannesburg South Africa, the Obama Foundation’s Leaders: Africa program brought together 200 emerging leaders from 45 countries across the continent, exploring new ways to take on the biggest challenges in their communities. Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED Executive Director - Africa, joined a discussion on leadership with Tsehaitu "Tubi" Retta, Deputy Director of the Obama Foundation, exploring how all of us benefit when girls receive access to quality education.
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