Maggie Kathewera Banda | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 March, 1975 |
| Nationality | Malawian |
| Education | Chancellor College |
| Occupation | Activist |
Maggie Kathewera Banda (born 15 March, 1975) is a Malawian activist. She is the executive director of the Women Legal Resource Center.
Bandad was born in 1975 in Mulanje, but her parents, Allan and Ellinah Chipasula, moved to Blantyre when she was two. Her mother had been a teacher in Mulange and the father was studying for a masters degree in Canada. She graduated from Chancellor College with a degree in Social Science. [1]
In 2012 she completed a post graduate course at the University of London in managing an NGO. [1]
In 2018 she founded and led the NGO called the Women’s Legal Resource Centre (Wolrec). It is based in Blantyre and it is concerned with women’s rights. [1]
In 2020 she attended a meeting at Malawi's Human Rights Resource Centre. The centre's CEO Emma Kaliya was calling for more progress. Banda noted that Malawi had made progress in creating laws to encourage better gender equality however the effect was not strong. [2]
In 2023 she was elected to lead the Non-Governmental Organisations-Gender Coordinating Network (NGO-GCN). The organisation had been founded in 1998 and she took over from Barbara Banda who had led the network since 2018. [3]
2025 was an election year and Banda was encouraging young people to take part in the election. She conceded that politics did not always go well but hope should remain and registering to vote was the start. [4]