Hlubi Mboya

Hlubi Mboya is one of southern Africa’s most loved TV and big screen actresses. She became a WFP National Ambassador Against Hunger after two years of raising awareness about WFP’s work by participating in various campaigns. These included a trip in 2009 to visit WFP projects in Mozambique where she easily transformed herself into cook, food distributor, dancer, singer and playmate to orphans and vulnerable children. And then she did it all over again- in Swaziland 2011.

Mboya, who is also a theatre actress, has a strong record of public service and social activism. Her role as HIV-positive Nandipha Sithole on the SABC television soap opera Isidingo led her to travel throughout Africa as an HIV/AIDS ambassador.

Hlubi is the first black women non-model to appear on the cover of South Africa’s Elle magazine. She strongly believes that fighting hunger and feeding a child is simple. “If you have US25 cents then you can feed a child and with one dollar you feed a family. It is that easy to make a positive impact on the life of a child,” she says.