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About Us. Graça Machel is one of the world’s leading advocates for women’s and children’s rights and has been a social justice and political activist for many decades. She established the Graça Machel Trust in 2010 as a Pan-African advocacy organisation focused on child health and nutrition, education, women’s economic and financial ...
Feb 9, 2023 · With Graça Machel that would apply twice, first as the widow of Mozambique’s revolutionary first President, Samora Machel, then as the third wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Graça Machel, Mozambique’s first post-independence Minister for Education, and an advocate for children’s rights, was named to undertake this massive project. Graca Machel speaks with a former child soldier during a visit to a UNICEF-assisted camp for demobilized child soldiers near Freetown, in Sierra Leone.
Machel. Date of Birth: 17-October-1945. Location of Birth: Gaza Province, Mozambique. Gender: Female. Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died three weeks before she was born, left explicit instructions that her older siblings were ...
Graça, at only 29 years of age, became FRELIMO’s state secretary of education in Mozambique’s first post-independence government. In 1975 Graça married Samora Machel, a hero of Mozambique’s liberation struggle and the nation’s first president. Graça already was an important government figure and the only woman in FRELIMO’s cabinet.
Feb 28, 2022 · Graca Simbine Machel is a former freedom fighter, prominent educator, philanthropist, and the only woman in modern times to be first lady of two nations, Mozambique and South Africa. Graca Simbine was born on Oct. 17, 1945 at Incadine, Gaza Province, Mozambique. Her father died 17 days before she was born, leaving her mother a widow with ...
Graça Machel DBE HonFBA (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡɾasɐ mɐˈʃɛɫ]; née Simbine, pronounced: , born 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is the widow of both former presidents of Mozambique and South Africa ; Mozambican president Samora Machel and South African president Nelson Mandela .
