Ponelo Kalonga

Women's empowerment | Community development | Project management | Social policy | Cross-cultural communication | Education | Advocacy | Public speaking

[Global Initiative @GI_TOC]

🇺🇳 With some of our #GIResilience Fellows and Grantees in Vienna for #COP11, we've been talking to...

🇱🇷 Vandalark Patricks, 2021 Fellow
🇨🇩 Alain Mugisho, 2022 Fellow
🇨🇲 Ewoule Lobe Estelle Marie Chancelle, 2022 Fellow
🇲🇼 Ponelo Kalonga, 2021 Fellow
(clockwise from top left)

[Global Initiative @GI_TOC]

🇲🇼 @PoneloPonie is a women’s rights activist working against sexual exploitation and gender-based inequalities in Zomba, Malawi.

💜 A 2021 #GIResilience Fellow, she supports vulnerable women through education, mentoring and leadership development.

#IWD2022 #BreakTheBias

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

Patronage and nepotism exacerbate inequality and poverty in Malawi –particularly among the youth, who are the usual victims of extortion that exist in both private and public offices.

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

Theater for development as means of raising awareness on issues of extortion facing youth in Malawi #theaterfordevelopment #endextortion #resiliecefund #globaliniative

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

Empowering young people and strengthening resilience: #reportextortion #BreakTheSilence

[Siria Gastélum Félix @siriagastelum]

It’s so nice to see our @GI_TOC Resilience Fund fellows working together and sharing their experiences working on #extortion in #Liberia #Indonesia and #Malawi with the world 😍. You’re amazing @SagaMango @nukila @PoneloPonie

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

An increased awareness  on issues of extortion at community level and an empowered and resilient community that is able to address issues that lead to extortion is our goal. #ADCmeeting #GIresilience #Breakathesilence #Reportextortion

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

https://t.co/Dq6y3CQBs0

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

Also present, were different media houses that promised to be in the forefront in ensuring that the information about extortion among young people is presented accurately and without bias and to protect the interests of malawians in obtaining knowledge concerning extortion.

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

With the help of the law enforcement officers who were present at the awareness campaign we provided sufficient evidence available to the people for them to justify reasonable beliefs about the state of extortion in their communities. #BreakTheSilence #Reportextortion

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

That day is today, we will soon go live! #reportextortion #breakthesilence #musakhalechetepamchitidweolandidwazinthumoopsezedwa #kuipatsa 🔥#resiliencefund #resiliencefellow2021

[Global Initiative @GI_TOC]

Meet, @PoneloPonie, a women’s rights activist working against sexual exploitation and gender-based inequalities.

She is the founder and executive director of @save_village, an organization that supports young women in Malawi.

#GIResilience

[Iniciativa Global contra el Crimen Organizado @GI_TOC_esp]

Conoce a @PoneloPonie, una activista por los derechos de las mujeres, trabaja contra la explotación
sexual y las desigualdades de género.

Es fundadora y directora ejecutiva de @save_village, una organización que apoya a las mujeres jóvenes en Malawi.

#GIResilience

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

My article on Covid19's economic impact on vulnerable women and girls in my community featured in Action on child and early marriage report. #WomenSupportingWomen #worldpurse #womenempowerment

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

In regards to the outcome of the project, I briefed reporters on the approach to be taken in trying to address the issue at community level so as to achieve an empowered and resilient community that is able to address issues that lead to extortion. #GIResilience #ResilienceFund

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

During the training we discussed best reporting mechanism that will encourage the victims to report cases of extortion they fell victim of in order for them to receive support.#GIResilience #ResilienceFund #CommunityResilience

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

_As part of my Resilience Fund Fellowship, I held a training workshop with representatives from different media house in Zomba as a way of encouraging journalists to investigate crimes related to extortion in Malawi.
#GIResilience
#ResilienceFund
#Communityresilience

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

@zalmayzia Thanks!

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

So delighted to be recognized as one of the 2021 Resilience Fund fellow. During my Fellowship, I will focus on the adoption and implementation of legislatons that regulates sexual exploitation linked with extortion.

[Global Initiative @GI_TOC]

🎉 We are delighted to announce that the #GIResilience Fund has selected 10 applicants for the 2021 Fellowship to foster resilience to extortion and organized crime.

🤝You can learn all about our new and highly diverse group of Fellows here ⤵️
https://t.co/J8Fbulh2f8

[Ponelo Kalonga @PoneloPonie]

I firmly believe that young people's involvement in decision-making processes not only benefits the youth but society as a whole. a year ago, I met these amazing group of young leaders,each of us from our place and role are working hard to live in a better world. #youthpower