Chipembere attended secondary school during a time when education was not considered a priority for Malawian girls.
She fled with their seven children to the United States under exile, after the dictatorial Kamuzu Banda severed their relationship with her husband.
[2] Chipembere went on to pursue and earn a bachelor's degree in early childhood education from the University of California at Los Angeles.
[4] In a widely publicised move, she decided to keep her husband's surname in spite of remarrying, as a political statement.
[5] WIN Malawi operates in rural Mangochi and has built and sponsored twelve primary schools that educate, feed and care for over a thousand orphans.