First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was yesterday appointed
honorary ambassador of Harvard University Global Health Catalyst in recognition
of the work she is conducting in Zimbabwe’s health sector.
Director of Global Health Catalyst at Harvard Medical
School, Professor Wilfred Ngwa, accepted the First Lady’s invitation for the
university to conduct its health summit in Zimbabwe on dates to be announced,
adding that the university will bring in investors in healthcare and economic
development.
Amai Mnangagwa was given her new role on the sidelines of
the ongoing 74th Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA). Prof Ngwa said the medical school had been following the First Lady’s
charity work.
“We are alive to the fact that she has been championing and
leading programmes that are to do with health across the Zimbabwe, including
the underprivileged,” he said.
“We accorded her the new role to honour the work she is
doing for the people of Zimbabwe, hence we want her to go across Africa.”
The university pledged its support towards Amai Mnangagwa’s
work, mainly in the health sector.
“I think that having a Harvard-Zimbabwean First Lady
partnership will be a very powerful tool that can set an example to other first
ladies in Africa,” said Prof Ngwa.
“We are happy that she has accepted the role.
“We are going to engage our partners across the world so
that we support her work and that will make her work go further.”
In her acceptance speech, Amai Mnangagwa vowed to continue
working hard to ensure there was affordable and quality healthcare for
everyone.
“I want to thank Harvard Medical School for recognising the
works that I am doing in my country through my Angel of Hope Foundation which I
believe persuaded them to appoint me their ambassador,” she said.
“I will not tire and I promise to continue working hard
because it is within my nature that when I focus on a task, I make sure that it
is done. We are mothers of our nations, hence we should show commitment and
work harder for our countries.
“The appointment is a great achievement and it is not for
me alone, but for the nation of Zimbabwe because they have also pledged to
assist our country, especially in the health sector. It is indeed a milestone
achievement.”
The First Lady was recently appointed as ambassador of
another US-based organisation, Days for Girls, in recognition of her work.
Again, she was voted vice president of the Organisation of
African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) in recognition of her
philanthropic work and assistance to the less-privileged.
Also this year, the First Lady scooped the 2019 African
Phenomenal Woman of the Year Award and the Pan-African Humanitarian Award.
Herald
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