Joyce Banda Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Philanthropy and development initiatives== Banda has been involved with many grassroots projects with women since the age of 25 to bring about policy change, particularly in education. She founded the Joyce Banda Foundation for Better Education. She founded the Young Women Leaders Network, National Association of Business Women and the Hunger Project in Malawi. She (jointly with President [[Joaquim Chissano]] of Mozambique) was awarded the 1997 Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger by the [[Hunger Project]], a New York-based non-governmental organisation. She used the prize money to fund the building of the Joyce Banda foundation for children.<ref name="thejackbrewerfoundation1"/> In 2006, she received the International Award for the Health and Dignity of Women for her dedication to the rights of the women of Malawi by the Americans for United Nations Population Fund.<ref name="unfpa"/> She served as commissioner for "Bridging a World Divided" alongside personalities such as Bishop [[Desmond Tutu]], and United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson.<ref name="malawi"/> Banda was also member of the Advisory Board for Education in Washington DC, and on the advisory board for the Federation of World Peace and Love in Taiwan (China).<ref name="malawi"/> As part of a government move on austerity measures in October 2012, Banda cut her salary by 30%. She also announced that the presidential jet would be sold.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://allafrica.com/stories/201210041137.html| title= Malawi: President Slashes Her Own Salary | year = 2012 | publisher = [[Allafrica.com]] | location = Africa | access-date =11 October 2012 }}</ref> ===Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health=== In 2010, Banda became a member of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health,<ref name="womendeliver">{{cite web|url=http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/the-launch-of-the-global-leaders-council-for-reproductive-health/ |title=Updates " The Launch of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health |publisher=Women Deliver |date=21 September 2010 |access-date=1 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715020428/http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/the-launch-of-the-global-leaders-council-for-reproductive-health |archive-date=15 July 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> a group of sixteen sitting and former heads of state, high-level policymakers and other leaders committed to advancing reproductive health for lasting development and prosperity.<ref name="womendeliver"/> Chaired by former [[President of Ireland]] [[Mary Robinson]], these leaders seek to mobilise the political will and financial resources necessary to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015 β a key target of the UN Millennium Development Goals.<ref name="womendeliver"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page