Charity Musamba (Zambia) has served as National Coordinator for the Debt Cancellation and Trade Justice Project of Jubilee Zambia and as Research and Communications Officer for the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection in Lusaka, Zambia. She participated in the Zambian government’s Civil Society consultation during the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) and Poverty Reduction Strategy processes. She has authored several reports on the connections between debt, trade and privatization. Charity has also presented at many international conferences, including a meeting of debt campaigners from around the world at the 2005 G8 meeting in Scotland.
Charity’s impressive past work includes the Zambia National Women´s Lobby Group and the International Labour Organization. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degress at the University of Zambia and is currently pursuing Doctoral Studies in Political Science at, focusing on African Development and Poverty Reduction. Says Charity: “Our problems in Zambia are not national problems – they’re global problems.”
Charity is a speaker for the "Drop the Debt, Invest In People" leg of the Global Connections Tour.