She was only 18 years old when she decided to help her fellow young girls to find their purpose in life. In her first year at the university of Malawi the Polytechnic, Grace did not even know anything about life, she did not know what she wanted. Fortunately, she made new friends who were passionate and determined. These new friends who always talk about school and their near future, she was usually lost during the conversation as she did not know what they were discussing and why they were discussing that. In as much as she was lost, she cling with the same friends for the whole year.
Her name is Grace Ghambi, a young talented engineer changing the whole through the organisation she founded Focus Action Results (FAR). She has provided volunteer opportunity to over 89 young people in Malawi and has reached and motivated over 50,000 young people in primary and secondary school. Her vision is to build a platform where young people can share, learn and get resources which they will use to address the challenges in their community while achieving the sustainable development goals.
Through the organisation Grace has used her own pocket money to help young people by providing resources for her project "re usable sanitary pad project" and transport to and from different schools in Malawi. This made her broke get into loans and had a very difficult life while still at college. The process of going FAR became messy for her, it looked ugly, it was not linear, sometimes she thought she has taken more steps back than forward. When she was fighting to get to know her purpose in life and learning, it felt more like she did not even know herself, she didnt know where she was standing and where she headed and who she was becoming.
It was not easy for the young Grace as some days it seemed hard, some days impossible. She felt like giving up every other day, but she never did. Grace understood that the only option giving up would give her is never to see her dreams come to reality. She learnt to become patient with herself.
in 2019, she received a message from a student at Chayamba Secondary School who wrote to her and said "If it was not for FAR, I WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THE DISTINCTION". This message brought a light in her life, she then work even harder to help out more, she recieved more of these messages and she knew she is fulfilling her purpose. By then organisations had started contacting her to train young girls and train them how to make sustainable re usable sanitary pads. Later in 2020, She was selected by the World Bank as a schlar for the African Drone which took place in Kigali. Also, she was awarded the best change maker in 2020 by the All African Student Union (She Game Award - 2020). In addition, Grace was recognised by the president for the millennium challenge corporation Mr Sean Cairncross in 2019 when he come to Malawi from Washington DC through Electricity Supply Corpation of Malawi - Where she got the merit based award.
The only thing that kept Grace going was hope that things will be right, that one day she will be rewarded for her right doing and most importantly that fact that she was fulfilling her purpose. Hope and Believe will require one to be positive, patient and the ability to keep learning;