[2] AGE Africa is an American non-profit started in 2005 by Xanthe Scharff to fund African girls' education.
[5] Scharff has retired as the catalyst of the organisation and Mtamba leads in Malawi assisted by at least one woman who has successfully followed the difficult route to educate herself while funded by AGE.
There are few jobs and peer pressure tempts girls who have begun funded education back to being a wife.
[6] Mtamba and AGE Africa run an annual retreat in Zomba where they invited 100 girls from a number of different schools.
Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates, and Amal Clooney visited a secondary school in Malawi in November 2023.
[11] Obama said that she had heard of the work done in supporting girls education and that her foundation funded AGE Africa since 2018.