Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, charity CEO

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Amanda Khozi Mukwashi is the chief executive of Christian Aid, leading development and humanitarian work in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. Amanda was born in Twickenham and grew up in Zambia and Rome where her stepfather worked in the diplomatic service. She studied international trade and investment law at the University of Zambia in Lusaka and during this time she began to develop her political outlook and commitment to the issue of social justice. She moved to the UK in 1996 where she took a master’s degree at the University of Warwick. But even with two degrees and considerable work experience she was unable to find a job and retrained as a care worker. She says her time working in nursing homes “reshaped” and “humbled” her. Later she worked for the VSO and served with the United Nations Volunteer programme in Germany before landing what she calls her “dream job” at Christian Aid in 2018. DISC ONE: Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba DISC TWO: Ave Maria (after Arcadelt) Composed by Jacques Arcadelt, performed by Choeur de Chambre de Namur, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón DISC THREE: My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen DISC FOUR: Jerusalema by Master Kg Featuring Nomcebo Zikode DISC FIVE: You Know My Name by Tasha Cobbs Leonard Featuring Jimi Cravity DISC SIX: (Red)emption Song by John Legend DISC SEVEN: I Believe by Fantasia DISC EIGHT: It Is Well With My Soul by Wintley Phipps BOOK CHOICE: Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr Spencer Johnson LUXURY ITEM: Quality Street chocolates CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: It Is Well With My Soul by Wintley Phipps Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast.
0:08.3	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to
0:12.8	take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.3	For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:20.4	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:42.3	My cast away this week is Amanda Kozy-Makwashi, the CEO of Christian Aid.
0:47.3	Founded in the wake of World War II, the charity brings together 41 British and Irish
0:52.3	churches and supports projects in almost 40 countries.
0:56.4	Born in Twickenham, Amanda grew up in Zambia and Rome and studied law in Lusaka before returning
1:02.2	to the UK where despite ample qualifications, she was unable to find work in her field
1:07.7	of expertise.
1:09.2	She retrained and spent four years working in nursing and care homes.
1:13.5	That experience, she says, reshaped and humbled her.
1:17.0	It also led her to leadership roles with VSO International and at the UN Volunteers Program
1:22.4	in Germany.
1:24.0	Now she's guiding one of our most recognised NGOs as it responds to the impact of a global
1:28.9	pandemic on the world's poorest at a time when many of the traditional approaches to fundraising
1:34.2	have been curtailed.
1:35.6	Yet, she describes it as a dream job, a chance to bring together her passion for humanitarian
1:41.3	work with the faith that sustains her.
1:44.2	She says, there are things that come across your path and at the time you may not realise
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