Albertina's Impact Story: Empowering women and breaking the poverty cycle in Mozambique

Albertina Carlota Simango is the Vice-President of AEIMO, the Association for the Informal Economy in Mozambique. A vendor for over 30 years, she started humbly, hardly being able to cook and sell her food without being harassed by local authorities. But through organizing her fellow vendors and rising to a position of leadership, she managed to secure a market space and break the poverty cycle plaguing her family.