“I have known Florence from our time at the University of Zambia Ridgeway Campus. Florence is an amazing communicators and team player. She has the unique ability to inspire team spirit and motivate others towards a common goal. She has leadership qualities reflected through her ability to inspire and influence masses towards something good. Florence inspires me and her incredible work ethic is commendable. She has successfully enhanced and amplified the profiles and visibility of both individuals and corporations! A pan African leader destined to change our continent and world!”
Florence Jedidiah Mulenga
35K Followers | CSR Manager | MBA Candidate | Brand Strategist
Lusaka Province, Zambia
500+ connections
Lusaka Province, Zambia
500+ connections
About
Florence Jedidiah Mulenga is the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Yango, a global tech company that offers mobility and delivery services digitally in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. She also sits on the Justina Mutale Foundation Board, an international NGO that has given young people access to over 50 university scholarships.
She is passionate about Implementing and advocating for sustainable projects that will have a geniune and lasting impact on local communities. Below are some of her achievements :
1. Florence was invited by the UAE government to speak at the Youth Environmental Education Congress in Abu Dhabi on how we can improve Environmental Education globally (January 2024)
2. She was also invited to speak at The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai by Emirates Nature-WWF. She was asked to share her insights on how STEM innovations can help solve the Triple Planetary Crisis : Climate Change, Pollution and Biodiversity Loss (December, 2023)
3. She worked for World Wide Fund For Nature, the biggest conservation NGO in the world as the Conservation Administrative Support where she acted as assistant to the Chief Conservation Officer and helped organize the implementation of the Youth Engagement Strategy aimed at empowering 1 million youths in conservation in Zambia by 2026 (February - December 2023)
4. She served as Social Media Marketing (SMM) Specialist at Lupiya Financial Services, A fast growing Fintech startup that has managed to raise over $15 million dollars of investments over the years aimed at making access to finance easier for women through lending and investment opportunities. (December 2023 - March 2024)
5. She served as Project Manager for The Zambian National STEM Foundation where she designed projects in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme , FNB, WWF, Ministry of Green Economy and more. She designed the very first Girls in STEM against GBV Summit in Zambia and co- managed the 2nd All Africa STEM Awareness Conference in Botswana. ( June 2021 - November 2022)
6. She was was invited to speak at the Women in Engineering Conference in Johannesburg (South Africa) by ITC on the role she has played in STEM Awareness amongst Women and Girls in Africa. (November 2022)
7. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from The University of Zambia and has seven awards for a concept she developed in University of an anti- asthma body spray that could potentially prevent asthmatic patients from going into an asthmatic attack. ( 2017 - 2022).
Experience
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Talk Show Host
UNZA TV - Ridgeway Campus
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Student Intern
Zambia Medicines And Medical Supplies Agency
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Education
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Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration
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Scholarship recipient of the Scottish Government MBA Scholarship programme from Heriot-Watt University under Edinburgh Business School.
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The University of Zambia
Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm Pharmacy
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Volunteer Experience
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Digital Mobilizer
UNICEF
- 2 months
Children
To help end the spread of Polio through Digital campaigns of Polio vaccination for children below the age of 5. This was done under UNICEF and Ministry of Health.
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Digital Mobilizer
Museum of Women's History Zambia
- Present 2 years 5 months
Arts and Culture
Sharing stories of great African women in history to promote women's history and women empowerment.
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National JETS Judge
JETS - Junior Engineers Technicians Scientists
- 1 month
Science and Technology
Florence Jedidiah Mulenga was selected to be one the Judges for the National JETS Fair in December, 2021 under the Biological Science Innovations Category. This involved Judging High-school learners that were representing all the 10 provinces of Zambia.
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Volunteer
DLN Technologies Ltd.
- 1 year 10 months
Economic Empowerment
- Volunteered for The Radical Masterclass in 2020 as an Usher.
- Volunteered for The Africa Must Think Conference in 2021 as part of the Media Team. (The biggest Enterpreneurship Conference in Zambia with over 10, 000 people).
- Volunteered For The Redefining Masterclass in 2022 as part of the leaders of the courtesy team handling the VIP Guests. -
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Judge Ambassador
Hult Prize Lusaka Impact Summit
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Administrator
Natasha Mwansa Foundation
- 8 months
Projects
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WFL Corporate Girls
See projectRole : Concept Developer & Co- Organizer
Project: When Females Lead Meets The United Nations in Zambia
Our WFL-BWC Scholarship Recipients had a corporate girls talk with the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Zambia, Ms. Beatrice Mutali.
The aim of this talk was to prepare our girls for the corporate world because our mandate as When Females Lead is to raise African women into confident leaders.
A special thank you to Ms. Mutali and The United Nations team…Role : Concept Developer & Co- Organizer
Project: When Females Lead Meets The United Nations in Zambia
Our WFL-BWC Scholarship Recipients had a corporate girls talk with the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Zambia, Ms. Beatrice Mutali.
The aim of this talk was to prepare our girls for the corporate world because our mandate as When Females Lead is to raise African women into confident leaders.
A special thank you to Ms. Mutali and The United Nations team for making time for our girls and for responding to all their questions. The girls were left inspired and ready to dream big.
Link to the Interview : https://fb.watch/h9f1bLpuHJ/ -
The Green Economy Boardroom Discussion
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See projectRole : Project Manager & Concept Developer
Project : The Green Economy Boardroom Discussion
The Zambian National STEM Foundation in partnership with ( Voices For Climate Action) WWF Zambia hosted The Green Economy Boardroom where young climate change Activists and Innovators gathered together with The Minister of Green Economy, Hon. Eng. Collins Nzovu, MP to discuss ways in which they can hold hands to help solve the Climate crisis.
The young people where also joined by…Role : Project Manager & Concept Developer
Project : The Green Economy Boardroom Discussion
The Zambian National STEM Foundation in partnership with ( Voices For Climate Action) WWF Zambia hosted The Green Economy Boardroom where young climate change Activists and Innovators gathered together with The Minister of Green Economy, Hon. Eng. Collins Nzovu, MP to discuss ways in which they can hold hands to help solve the Climate crisis.
The young people where also joined by our Board Chairperson, Dr. Auxilla Bupe Ponga and The Acting Chief Conservation Officer of WWF Zambia, Ms. Beauty Mbale and members of The Press.
The young people in the Boardroom got to share their ideas and solutions with The Minister and he gave each one of them feedback. They shared ideas such as :
Incorporation of Climate Change in our school curriculum, large scale promotion of biogas technology for farmers , possible ways for more youths to attend COP27, The tax exemption of green technology like biogas technology, Green Investments being promoted , use of technology to detect forest fires, prevent diseases, and keep crops healthy etc.
We would like to thank WWF Zambia and The Ministry of Green Economy for their support and a special thank you to the youths for representing their communities with solutions on how we can reduce our carbon footprint as a country. -
Girls In STEM Against GBV
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See projectRole : Project Manager & Concept Developer
Theme : Empowering Girls to achieve Economic Independence Through STEM Education to Fight Against GBV
On Thursday this week, we successfully held the Girls in STEM AGAINST GBV SUMMIT where we hosted approximately 80 High school girls from Chisamba at Cresta Golfview Hotel here in Lusaka.
This event was proudly sponsored by UNDP Zambia , Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka , Irish Aid , and Gender Division - GD (Cabinet Office)…Role : Project Manager & Concept Developer
Theme : Empowering Girls to achieve Economic Independence Through STEM Education to Fight Against GBV
On Thursday this week, we successfully held the Girls in STEM AGAINST GBV SUMMIT where we hosted approximately 80 High school girls from Chisamba at Cresta Golfview Hotel here in Lusaka.
This event was proudly sponsored by UNDP Zambia , Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka , Irish Aid , and Gender Division - GD (Cabinet Office).
The event had STEM Quizzes, STEM Debates, Inspiring STEM stories, Financial Literacy from FNB Zambia, A Drone training session, Innovators exhibitions, GBV talks and speeches from various honourable Delegates.
A special thank you to Honourable Felix Chipota Mutati for sending Mr. Succeed Mubanga (Director of planning at Ministry of Technology and Science - Zambia ) as our Guest of Honour. A special thank you Mr. Roland Seri for representing the Resident Representative from UNDP. A special thank you to all the speakers for Gracing us with their presence.
We had special appearances from Mizinga Melu and Maureen Nkandu who came to share their life stories with the girls to encourage them that they too Can become success just like them. We also had a special performance from K-Star !!!
The girls came from three schools , Namely : Momboshi Secondary School, Mupamopamo Secondary School and Chisamba Day Secondary School and the goal was to inspire them pursue careers in STEM and develop financial independence to fight against GBV.
Honors & Awards
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Outstanding STEM Student Of The Year
Genius Education Zambia
An award that recognizes students that have shown excellence and outstanding achievement in STEM.
- This criterion is demonstrated through evidence of:
- commitment to participating in school and wider community STEM events and activities (including those online), reflecting a strong passion for any STEM subject
- Involvement in STEM extracurricular activities (forums, events, activities) as a participant, initiator, leader or invited guest
- a depth of learning…An award that recognizes students that have shown excellence and outstanding achievement in STEM.
- This criterion is demonstrated through evidence of:
- commitment to participating in school and wider community STEM events and activities (including those online), reflecting a strong passion for any STEM subject
- Involvement in STEM extracurricular activities (forums, events, activities) as a participant, initiator, leader or invited guest
- a depth of learning undertaken in one or more STEM fields (examples could include research undertaken, work experience completed, STEM competition participation and achievement,
- STEM forum participation, ambassador roles for STEM events and volunteer work)
- excellence in STEM (examples could include outstanding achievement in STEM, recognition of scientific work by school partner organisations, selection to participate in science fairs and forums,
- awards for excellence in science or technology or engineering or mathematics).
- Exhibits a well-developed plan to pursue a STEM pathway beyond school
- details of the university STEM pathway that the applicant plans to pursue
- understanding of both the requirements of the pathway and the prerequisite steps needed to reach the goal
- clear and concise reason for selecting this pathway, such as a specific career goal, a general enjoyment of STEM or the influence of school and/or teachers (if applicable) on the decision-making process
- how has your participation in STEM-related activities inspired you into further STEM studies and action in your community (eg advocacy, tutoring, mentoring, organising activities).
- demonstrated work ethic required to achieve the desired goals (examples could include previous achievements and actions, work experience and voluntary work). -
Economics Association Of Zambia Innovator Award
Economics Association Of Zambia
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Listed On The 'Top 30 under 30' Future of Zambia
The Dream Factory
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First Prize Champion of Boss Biz Pitch Fest (Globally)
Boss Biz Pitch Fest
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Medical And Technological Innovation National Youth Award
National Youth Development Council (NYDC) in partnership with Ministry Of Higher Education & The Ministry of Youth and Sports ( From The Government of The Republic of Zambia)
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Young Pharmaceutical Innovator of The Year 2020
Pharmaceutical Society Of Zambia
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National First Prize Champion of FEMBIOBIZ 2019
Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio)
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Best Student Startup at The Zambia Entrepreneurship Summit 2019
Women's Entrepreneurship Access Center Zambia (WEAC Zambia)
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