Grace Chansa Chungu is the founder of Generation GEM (Gifted Empowered Motivated) Movement. The movement's focus is to promote and grow literate, competent, capable and well informed decision makers.

Generation GEM is currently implementing two of its very own original projects. Project Take Over and Dear sister project. Project TakeOver is one of its kind. Peer Educators from the movement are rehabilitating nonexistent Action AIDS clubs and implementing Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Education. It is using Forum theatre and life skills to train and educate pupils within the Zambian education system whilst dear sister is a social media mentorship platform that bridges the gap of information flow from one sister to another. Write up’s and videos are used to discuss real life issues on Youtube and Facebook targeting the young girls and women. Grace’s amazing public speaking skills and wonderful writing skills have captivated the Zambian Young people.

Before launching the foundation she volunteered at the largest hospital in Zambia as Lead mentor and later worked as Public relations officer for S.P.E.E.D Youth Club. There she worked with over 1,000 adolescents and children living with HIV. Here she was spotted for vigor and reseillice by an international faith-based psycho-social organisation based in Zimbabwe called Champions for Life that offers psycho-social,faith based support to adolescents and children living with HIV in Southern african Countries. She shared her story and implemented seminars targeting depression, adherence and grief for children and adolescents living with HIV in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, South africa (Johannesburg and Duban).

As a Social science student and Champion for adolescent Health she has spoken on National and Global platforms advocating for adolescent health issues.

Aside from this Grace is also working as a consultant on Zambia’s Only SMS counseling service that has over 199,000 subscribers nationwide with over 60% of these being young people. Zambia U-report currently offers access to a diverse range of information to its subscribers.

She additionally sits in a number of national technical working groups representing the voice of the young people. Grace has a continuous drive to see young people take up and own every space they are in.

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