Together with her husband, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, she founded FRELIMO and helped organize the liberation of Mozambique from Portuguese colonialism.
In 1951, at the age of 17, she attended a church camp in Geneva, Wisconsin, where she met the 31 year old Eduardo Mondlane, who was giving a speech about the future of Africa.
[2] In 1963, the Mondlanes moved with their family to Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika in order to organize the liberation factions fighting the Portuguese in Mozambique.
[3] The Institute organized health care and secondary education and raised funds for scholarships abroad for Mozambicans.
[4] After independence in 1975 she held positions within the Mozambican government, and was general secretary of the National AIDS council from 2000 to 2003.