The humanitarian community is mourning a devastating loss.
Zambian teacher Dora Moono Nyambe, who rose to fame using social media to help her organization Footprints of Hope Mapapa to feed, house and provide education to hundreds of children in a rural community, died on Christmas Day. She was 32.
“It is with a heavy hearth [sic] that we announce the sudden departure of our beloved Dora,” read a statement posted to Instagram Dec. 27. “She will be remembered as a loved mother, heroine, peace philanthropist and an extraordinary woman.”
Her cause of death was not shared.
Nyambe, who grew up in Zambia’s capital city Lusaka, first visited the rural community of Mapapa in 2019, she told Northeastern University’s newspaper Global News in 2023. After seeing how the poverty, lack of education and resources affected the community, she decided to move to Mapapa and start a school. After she advocated for her community on social media and raised money from donors all over the world, the school expanded into a campus serving more than 350.
