Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda started The Joyce Banda Foundation in 1997 as a tool to empower women and youth at community level.
The Foundation formalized the work Her Excellency, Dr. Joyce Banda had been implementing since she was in her twenties, which included; feeding the poor, empowering the powerless, fighting for the oppressed and taking up the cause of the disadvantaged.
Today, with more than 200 employees, and over 3000 beneficiaries, the foundation continues to carry out Dr. Banda’s vision through its work, partnerships across Malawi, and beyond.
The foundation, while established by Her Excellency, Dr. Banda, building on her work, the foundation is wholly independent of her political career and philanthropic works.
Motto
Economic Empowerment and Equal Access to Education for all.
Our mission
The foundation’s vision is for a Malawi, where rural women and youth are economically empowered, and young boys and girls have equal access to quality education.
Our values
The foundation’s mission is to economically empower women as entrepreneurs, and in trade by providing social support; and to ensure access to education by providing quality education specifically for the disadvantaged and vulnerable in rural areas.