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For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

I've been doing a lot of work on female rights, especially adolescent rights. I've been to a lot of schools where the UNICEF had set up villages in India, and it's an eye-opening experience.

I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.