Team Member: Martha Mwale Mulenga

        Martha Mwale Mulenga

        Ndola

        Zambia, Africa

        Executive Director

        Building Science Degree (Quantity Surveying)

        Age 34. Married.

        E-Mail: Martha Mwale Mulenga 

I was born in 1965 in Chingola, a small town on the 'Copperbelt' Province. I am the third in a family of 5. My father died when I was 6. His elder brother whom I still refer to as dad because he really has been that in many ways therefore brought me up. Before joining his family I changed schools often but from1976 I went to Lusaka Girl's Primary and later qualified to Roma Girl's Secondary School where I attained the School Certificate in 1983.

In 1984 I went to the Copperbelt University where I pursued a degree in Building Science (with a major in Quantity Surveying). This I attained in 1989 with a credit. Upon graduation I worked for J.W Robertson a firm of Chartered Quantity Surveyors. Due to a declining workload, I had to leave the company in May 1992. Later that year I joined Mpelembe Drilling Company MDC a major contractor to the mining giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mining LTD where I served as a Contracts Engineer and rose to the post of Assistant Head of Technical Services. I left MDC in1997 to join the Zambia Telecommunications Company ZAMTEL as Manager in charge of estates and administration.

I left ZAMTEL in September 1999 to join the private sector to concentrate on business lines established along the way. I'm now Executive Director of Sybil-Line limited a company dealing in project management Land scaping and construction.

I am also director of Sunga Nursery school, which caters for children aged between 2 and 6.

I met Emmillio my husband in 1985 at the university .At the time we were both serious sports enthusiasts, he played football (soccer) while I played basketball. I got the 1986 sportswoman of the year award (i.e. inter-university). We got married on May 26 1990. We now have two children; our daughter Musunga is 8 while our son Chilando is soon to be 6 (on 27th January).

Emmillio is a marketing specialist and a Gemologist (with qualifications from the University of Zambia and from the Gemological Institute of America, previously based in Santa Monica, California).

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