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Neema Namadamu

Founder & Executive Director Hero Women Rising & Synergy of Congolese Women's Associations

"I want women to discover the gift that they are and the gifts that they embody. My goal is that every woman develops the constitution and capacity to be the agent of change for their little world, and mine – not by preaching things they’ve learned, but by living out of the enlightened and illuminating woman they’ve become and are becoming."
Neema Namadamu
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HER BACKGROUND

Neema Namadamu is a visionary game-changer. Women Thrive Worldwide named her as 1 of 14 Fierce Women’s Rights Advocates To Watch In 2014. In a Huffington Post article, peace activist John Dear said,

 

“She ranks with Leymah Gbowee, the Nobel laureate from Liberia and Mairead Maguire, the Nobel laureate from Belfast — two of our greatest living peacemakers.”

 

Crippled from polio, she is the first woman with disability from her ethnic group to earn a university degree, going on to serve in Parliament for South Kivu province, and then as Chief Advisor to DRC’s Minister of Gender and Family. Upon leaving government service, Neema founded an NGO to support disabled female-victims of violence in East Congo.

 

In 2012, Neema founded Synergy of Congolese Women’s Associations (SAFECO), a forum to foster collaboration among women-led NGOs to work their Peace, Rights, and Development agenda.

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Amanda devotes her time to expanding healthcare knowledge and revealing how the MCN Foundation can serve in addressing the great needs identified through her extensive travels to South America, Africa, India, Asia, Russia and many developing nations.   Amanda is a member of Women Health Care Executives, Green Hospitals, Patient Advocate Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Officers and Healthcare Executive Network. She is active on the board of Heidi Latsky Dance Organization a NYC based physically integrated company, creating daring work with people with disabilities since 2006.

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