Mentoring and connecting ambitious women on how to excel as Leaders. Our Mentoring initiative is a special collaboration, based on commitment to the mentoring process, common goals, and expectations, focus, mutual trust, and respect. It will enable the transfer of knowledge from the mentor’s expertise and past mistakes and competencies to the mentees.
Mentees will have the opportunity to establish valuable connections with mentors, sponsors, and other mentees which is important in their leadership development journey.
Our Mentoring initiative is a special collaboration, based on a commitment to the mentoring process, common goals and expectations, focus, mutual trust and respect Success for us is for each one of our mentees to have a sense of belonging, to be equipped with the necessary skills they need to achieve successful careers across diverse fields as confident Leaders and most importantly, to be able to mentor other young females themselves. WFL believes that every female on the continent needs support and guidance as they navigate their Leadership career and aims to provide this support through a well-structured 3-month mentorship program series.
For too long, the STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) fields have been shaped by gender
biases that exclude women and girls, past, present, and future. Unequal access to education, technologies, and
leadership positions have steered countless bright female minds away from STEM careers and stalled their progress.
WFL aims to support female leaders in Zambia and across Africa bring their innovative ideas to life and impact the way
we see the world today by forming strategic partnerships with organizations across the world. The future is female!
Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. But the sector is underperforming in many
countries in Africa, partly because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face
constraints that reduce their productivity. When Females Lead believe that ‘What you sow, when you sow, is what
you reap’. Its objective is to establish WFL as the leading Female development Actor in Zambia and on the continent.
WFL also believes that increasing and empowering female entrepreneurs in large scale Agri-business, coupled with
The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report released in June 2020, shows progress is slowing on the global out-of-school rate for primary and secondary-age children, and Covid-19 will only make it worse (with a large number affected being that from sub-Saharan Africa). WFL believes that children and young people are the most vulnerable and need support, and the key to this support is access to education which is a fundamental human right that improves and enhances their chances in life and helps tackle poverty.
When Females Lead (WFL) Zambia launched a scholarship program powered by Beautiful World Canada (BWC), a not for profit organization based in Canada, that is aimed at providing scholarships for young vulnerable girls to obtain tertiary education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics known as STEM fields. BWC supports scholarships for girls across sub Saharan Africa for vocational, college and university programs by partnering with local organizations. Their projects are currently in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Zambia through WFL.
In recent years, Women have made significant progress in attaining leadership positions in various industries but there is still a long way to go. Despite efforts to promote gender diversity in leadership, Women continue to face unique challenges and barriers that limit their opportunity for advancement at C-Suite and Board level. Established in 2022, Women in Boardroom (WIB) is a pillar of When Females Lead with the objective of driving initiatives that address the leadership gender diversity gap and help women excel in leadership positions.
The DOfE Award focuses on non-formal education and is a youth awards program founded in 1956 by Prince Philip, the former Duke of Edinburgh. The program aims to encourage young people aged 14 to 24 to develop their skills, physical fitness, volunteering and adventurous spirit through a series of challenges and activities. The DofE Award is recognized internationally and is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious awards for young people.