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We are excited to announce the expansion of the Graça Machel Trust’s Women Creating Wealth -Intergenerational (WCW-I) edition in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. The program aims to transform Africa’s economies through meaningful support to women entrepreneurs to enable them to grow and in so doing, uplift their communities and productive exchange and collaboration between women.
Graça Machel is a Mozambican politician, and social and human rights activist. She is the widow of the first President of Mozambique, Samora Machel, and also the widow of first President of South Africa, the legendary anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela.
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…and in 1998 Mandela married Graca Machel, the widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president and leader of Frelimo. Read More; member of the Elders. In the Elders. Jimmy Carter, Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela, Denis Mukwege, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu, and Muhammad Yunus; the Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was. Read More
Mar 9, 2024 · The Graça Machel Trust she founded in 2010 focuses on advocating for women’s economic and social empowerment, food security and nutrition, education for all, as well as good governance. In her speech, Machel stated that she will be using this award to encourage young women to uplift the continent.
Graça Machel is an African stateswoman whose decades long professional and public life is rooted in international advocacy for women and children’s rights. Machel has created three non-governmental organizations in her own right. She founded and serves as President of the Foundation for Community Development and the Zizile Institute for ...
May 28, 2023 · Graça Simbine Machel was born on October 17, 1945 in Incadine, Mozambique (SAHO, 2021), previously known as Portuguese East Africa.She became a freedom fighter in Mozambique and, in 1973, joined the Mozambican Liberation Front FRELIMO (Portugese: Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) which was founded in 1962 in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania by Samora Machel and Eduardo Mondlane.
