President Dr. Joyce Banda, to keynote GC4W’s International Women’s Day gala

Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W), the international non-profit organization dedicated to connecting, educating, and empowering women and young girls around the globe has announced that Africa’s second woman President and Former President of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda, will deliver a keynote address at their International Women’s Day (IWD) celebration event at 6 p.m. EST, on Saturday, March 7 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

Banda will focus her address on the importance of investing in young girls and women and “Connecting for Women Empowerment,” the GC4W theme for this year’s red carpet celebration. Former Victoria Secret model and Tech CEO, Amy Hixson, and Arise Entertainment 360 National TV host and National TV Correspondent for Black Enterprise, Shannon LaNier, will host the celebration.

Also appearing alongside Banda, Hixson, and LaNier will be J. Skyler Fernandes, managing director of Simon Venture Group. Fernandes will join representatives from Intel, to receive GC4W’s first ever “Corporate Contribution & Leadership Awards,” awarded to two companies who have excelled in their commitment to women empowerment.

“There is no more perfect way to celebrate International Women’s Day in a big way than with a keynote address from Honorable Dr. Banda, a woman who has inspired so many around the globe,” said Lilian Ajayi, founder and executive director, Global Connections for Women Foundation. “We are excited to hear Banda challenge women and girls to push boldly for empowerment and equality around the world.”

GC4W’s 2015 IWD gala and awards benefit will also recognize and reward global women champions, who are among the most respected voices on women’s issues around the world. These women will join other GC4W hall of fame awardees from previous IWD celebrations, such as Jenna Fernandes, Denise Ajayi-Williams, Amy Hixon, Teresa Clarke, Chief Temitope Ajayi, and the Honorable U. Joy Ogwu, to name a few.

GC4W’s 2015 IWD Gala & Awards celebration will provide guests with an exciting opportunity to celebrate women’s empowerment around the world. Therefore, on Sat. Mar. 7, join us alongside GC4W and their team of sponsors and supporters at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, for an evening of inspiration and networking. We hope to see you there! Tweet us @muipr and let us know if you will be joining us. If you are unable to attend the celebration, please remember that charitable giving remains the bedrock of successful gender equality programs like those emanating from GC4W. Visit GC4W to make your tax-deductible donation today: http://gc4women.org/donate.

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Malawi’s New Leader: Joyce Banda Becomes Second Woman President in Africa

President Joyce Banda,

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The continent of Africa now has a second woman holding the top leadership role in her country.
Joyce Banda was sworn in Saturday as the new president of the southern African nation of Malawi.
The peaceful transition of power is a great relief in Malawi where a political crisis seems to have been averted after the sudden death Thursday of President Bingu wa Mutharika.
For many Malawians who blamed Mutharika for the current economic crisis, it is also a moment of great hope for change.
Early Saturday, when she was still vice president, Banda appeared at a news conference flanked by army, police, and fellow government leaders.
According to Malawi media, she did not directly answer the question of whether she would assume the presidency, but she did say, “The constitution is prevailing.”
Indeed, hours later she took the official oath of office at the National Assembly in the capital of Lilongwe, despite objections from some government ministers.
Malawi’s constitution stipulates the vice president is to take over leadership if the president dies.
Immediately after Mutharika’s death by cardiac arrest, it was unclear if that would happen because Banda had a falling out with Mutharika in 2010.
While she remained vice president, she was kicked out of Mutharika’s political party and formed her own. Mutharika, meanwhile, appeared to be grooming his brother to replace to him.
Banda has ordered the nation’s flags to be flown at half-staff for a 10 day mourning period for her predecessor, but there are already reports of Malawians celebrating Mutharika’s death.
The 78-year-old former World Bank official was elected into office in 2004 and again in 2009, but in recent years he was accused of economic mismanagement, becoming autocratic, and souring relations with important donors—especially the United States and Great Britain—who then withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of much needed aid.
Banda, 61, is a longtime campaigner for women’s rights and better education in Malawi.
She is expected to run the country at least until scheduled elections take place in 2014.
She inherits a difficult task.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world where the majority of people live in abject poverty.
The country is prone to natural disasters—the extremes of drought and flooding– and is facing critical fuel shortages and rising food prices.
To govern effectively, Banda will need cooperation from elected members of Mutharika’s political party, which she was expelled from after she became critical of the late president.
Banda is the daughter of a popular musician.
She is married to a retired chief justice.
She has a sister who was hired by pop legend Madonna to run a school for girls in Malawi, but the project failed and she was fired.

Banda is now the second female head of state in Africa. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected into office in 2006.

President Joyce Banda First Female President of Malawi

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An entrepreneur, activist, politician and a philanthropist, Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda became president is Former President of the Republic of Malawi having ruled Malawi from 2012 -2014. She is Malawi’s first female president and Africa’s second. Voted as Africa's most powerful woman by Forbes Magazine for two years running and voted as one of the most powerful women in the world, Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda is a champion for the rights of women, children, the disabled and other marginalized groups.
Before becoming President of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda served as a Member of Parliament; Minister of Gender and Child Welfare; Foreign Minister and Vice President of the Republic of Malawi. While serving as Minister of Gender and Child Welfare, Dr. Joyce Banda championed the enactment of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill in 2006, which provides a legal framework and instrument for elimination and Prevention of all forms of Violence against Women and Girls.
President Dr. Joyce Banda is credited for turning round Malawi’s ailing economy which was on the verge of collapse when she became president in April 2012. She instituted a number of economic reforms which did not only bring the economy back on right truck but also saw the economy growing from 1.8% in 2012 to over 6.2 % in 2014; improved the operational industrial capacity from 35% in 2012 to 85% in July 2014; enhanced Malawi’s foreign exchange import cover from one week in 2014 to three and half months in July 2014; and also turned around Malawi’s fuel cover from 1 day in 2014 to 15 days in 2014 at any given time. In the areas of democracy, good governance and rule of law President Banda repealed a number of draconian laws that infringed on people’s civil liberties, media freedom and weakened institutions of good governance and rule of law.

Dr. Joyce Banda’s unwavering commitment to promotion women’s maternal health and reproductive rights saw her establish Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, which spearheaded the fight against high maternal mortality and promotion of safe motherhood in Malawi. Remarkably during the two year period of her presidency, Malawi registered considerable success in the areas of maternal and child health and reproductive health in general as the country reduced maternal mortality ratio from 675 deaths per 100,000 live births to 460. The achievement is attributed to the model which President Banda introduced, which was a balanced act of both traditional and technical dimensions and approaches.
Staying fast to her humanitarian convictions, President Banda sold the multi-million dollar presidential jet and donated 30% of her salary to Malawi Council for the handicapped (MACOHA), an organization for people with disabilities during her two year of presidency.

A recipient of more than 15 international accolades including “Hunger Project Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger” shared with President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 1997, President Banda is a strong advocate for women and girls’ emancipation and empowerment and a prominent civil rights campaigner. She founded the Joyce Banda Foundation International, which has guided projects from empowering women, rural communities to providing orphans education. Currently the Joyce Banda Foundation International has benefitted over 1.3 million people in Malawi through various programs and interventions ranging from economic empowerment, agriculture and food security, education, water and sanitation, youth development just to mention a few. Among many other organizations, she established the National Association of Business Women, which lends women start-up cash to build small businesses, and the Young Women's Leadership Network, which mentors female students in schools.
On the international scene, President Dr. Banda was instrumental in formation of such organization is a African Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (AFWE), currently running in 41 countries in Africa, Council for the Economic Empowerment of Women in Africa (CEEWA) and Americans & Africans Business Women’s Alliance (AABWA) of which she served as First President.
President Banda sits on a number international organization bodies. These include Executive Advisory Committee of UNIFEM, Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health and Scientific Advisory Board of the Programs in Global health and Social change for Harvard Medical School.
President Joyce Banda has been a panelist and motivation speaker at a number of international conferences and forums, including the International Conference on Women in Beijing, the American and African Business Women's Africa Conference in London and the Women Deliver Conference in Washington, DC.

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