Health, women's and girl's and youth rights activist and advocate. Executive Director of the Natasha Mwansa FoundationWomen Deliver
Born on the 3rd of May, 2001, Natasha, also known as Africa’s Jewel is a powerful and influential Zambian 18 year old girl who speaks out on issues affecting the health and well-being of young people. She is the youngest recipient of the Global Health Leaders award worldwide awarded by the World Health Organisation in recognition of her work towards adolescent health for over six years and after her awe striking speech on what young people want during the opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly. She is recognised by the 50th World Economic Forum as one of the top ten Teenagers and young people below the age of 20 worldwide creating impact and changing the world. She is a Junior Reporter and Journalist. Natasha has also been recently recognised by her president, H.E Edgar Chagwa Lungu, as one of the young people in her country creating phenomenal impact and change worldwide. Additionally she is a health, women and young people’s rights activist and advocate. She is also a Women Deliver 2018 Young Leader and the founder and the Executive Director of the Natasha Mwansa Foundation, a foundation that aims to see a world in which Young People are heard, valued, healthy and given the opportunity to share power with stakeholders and influence decisions made over them. Additionally, her work has led her to sit on the African Union Commission’s Youth Advisory Board, she was picked as the United Nation’s Population Fund’s Youth Ambassador and she is a Social Accountability Monitor and a first year student at the University of Zambia. Her goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of communities while being a voice, light and solution and to help people, especially young people by equipping them to realise that they too have a voice and ought to be heard.