Welcome to the Justina Mutale Foundation, which incorporates the World Summit on Women and Girls. This platform addresses the challenges facing women and girls in leadership and sustainable development. The aim of the Foundations is to empower women and girls and integrate them into power systems to bridge the gender gap in politics, business, society, environment, science, technology and all other walks of life.
This Foundation connects women from around the world to global power networks of women movers and shakers; bringing women’s talents, ideas and stories together from across the globe; to motivate and inspire women around the world to turn dreams into actionable goals as women leaders of the 21st century.
Who We Are
The Foundation is a non-profit and non-governmental organization registered under the laws of England and Wales with its registered office in London, United Kingdom; and also registered under the laws of Zambia with its registered office in Lusaka, Zambia. The Foundation advocates for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in political leadership and economic empowerment by providing leadership and entrepreneurship training, mentorship, coaching and quality education. The Foundation also advocates for the retention and completion of tertiary education for young people from rural and disadvantaged communities in Zambia and the rest of Africa to give them access to upward academic, social and economic mobility by providing them with university scholarships to access tertiary education in various parts of the world.
The Foundation was launched at the House of Lords, Westminster Houses of Parliament in London in 2015. The Foundation’s Scholarship Program, which now incorporates the Justina Mutale Foundation Presidential STEM & SPORTS Fellows Program, was launched in 2016 at the Chancery of the Zambian High Commission to the United Kingdom in London. The Scholarship launch was officiated by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and the African Union Permanent Representative to the European Union from Brussels, as well as the serving High Commissioner of the Republic of Zambia to the Court of James and United Kingdom. The Foundation aims to contribute to the actualization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. It forms part of the official Civil Society delegations to the United Nations, the African Union and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings and other international for that address gender issues across the globe.
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