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Humanitarian Elizabeth Nyamayaro Shares Her Journey From Near-Starvation To The World Stage – And The Lesson She Brought With Her

l climb up the steep stairs out of the hot and stuffy London Underground, emerging on to a busy street in Bayswater. Commuters flow in and out of the Tube station’s entrance like ants rushing in and out of a nest. For just a moment, I forget that my fingers have gone numb after clutching the plastic handle of my small green suitcase for so long. I forget about the throbbing blisters inside my tight new shoes, and the damp yellow dress clinging to my back. The year is 2000. I am 25 years old. I can hardly believe that I have finally made it to Britain.

Women are severely underrepresented at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a conclave for the world’s most powerful leaders and tycoons. But this year, two of the women leading initiatives are Ms. Whitmarsh, who as head of the Washington State Investment Board runs one of the biggest state pension funds in the United States; and Elizabeth Nyamayaro, who heads the U.N. Women’s HeForShe campaign at the United Nations.on, and human rights issues.



A Push for Gender Equality at the Davos World Economic Forum, and Beyond

‘Once a humanitarian, always a humanitarian’: Elizabeth Nyamayaro on her global fight against hunger

It is Elizabeth Nyamayaro’s childhood experience of growing up in an impoverished village in Zimbabwe that serves as a guiding star to her today – one she describes in her 2021 book, I Am a Girl from Africa.
“I was raised by my gogo, my grandmother, in a small agro-community,” Nyamayaro says. “We grew our crops together, we harvested together. There was abundance because the food was shared by everyone.”
Then came a crippling drought, drying out water and food supplies. It left Nyamayaro and other villagers on the edge of starvation.

What It Means To Be A Young Woman In 2023, According To The UN's Elizabeth Nyamayaro

The award-winning humanitarian and Special Advisor for the United Nations World Food Programme explores the challenges that young women and girls face in 2023, and celebrates the wins for the women's rights movement.

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Elizabeth Nyamayaro: "We need to stop putting moral judgment on eating"



To mark World Food Day, the humanitarian and nutritionist asks us to to rethink diet culture, and take a fresh look at our relationship with food.

It’s happened countless times. You’re hungry and open your refrigerator, but nothing looks appealing ...

It was the speech that stopped the world. In 2014, Emma Watson made global headlines when she launched UN Women's #HeForShe movement. The founder of that movement was Elizabeth Nyamayaro, an innovator, disruptor and thought leader from Zimbabwe. In this exclusive extract from her new book, she shares the story behind the viral movement.