Graça Machel (Mozambique, 1945) is the founder and President of the Foundation for Community Development and the President of the United Nations´ Research Commission on the impact of armed conflict on infancy. She has been Minister of Education. After the death of her husband, Samora Machel (first President of Mozambique after independence), Graça Machel has focused her activity on protecting the children who have been victims of the civil war that has ravaged her country.