Camfed alumnae continue to emerge as leaders on the world stage! This week, 23-year-old Abigail Kaindu, a Camfed graduate from rural Zambia, is in Johannesburg, South Africa to meet First Lady Michelle Obama and participate in a Young African Women Leaders Forum, sponsored by the US State government.
The excitement begins today with a meeting of the 75 young women delegates, who come from across sub-Saharan Africa and were chosen to attend because of the critical role they are playing as change-makers in their countries. But the high point of the event occurs tomorrow, when the young women will spend the day with Michelle Obama. In the morning, the First Lady will deliver a keynote address on leadership to the young women at a church in Soweto. She will then sit in on several breakout sessions as participants discuss how they, as young leaders, can contribute to education, mentoring, entrepreneurship, health and community development. To wrap up the day’s activities, Mrs. Obama will lead the group in a community service project at a Soweto community center.
“Michelle Obama is a great heroine to me, and I know I am going to come away from this experience inspired and brimming with new ideas about how to improve my community and my nation,” says Abigail.
At this time last year, Abigail was sharing her thoughts on development in Africa with another member of the Obama family – at President Obama’s Forum with Young African Leaders, in Washington, D.C. Read more about that amazing experience, and hear her discuss what the opportunity meant to her in Abigail Goes to the White House!
