GivingTuesday Africa ◆ 16 Stories ◆ Luna Cafe The Systems Women Build
Before there were institutions, there were grandmothers.
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Saturday 7 November 2026, 5pm to 7pm, at Luna Cafe, Abuja.
An intimate, invitation-only gathering that turns a season of gathered stories into a room full of intergenerational conversation, and celebrates the women who quietly build the systems that hold our communities together.
Across Africa, women, and grandmothers especially, are one of the most active and least recognised forces in community generosity. They give time, wisdom, care and leadership, season after season, usually without acknowledgement.
Through the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign, and our partnership with CivSource Africa in Uganda, we gathered those stories and captured them in the #GoGrandMa podcast. Civil society leaders, grandmothers themselves, and young people, all in their own voices.
This listening party takes those stories into a beautiful room in Abuja and uses them to open a live conversation about the systems women build, and about the value older women bring to local giving.
A soundbite from the #GoGrandMa podcast. The full episode plays in the room on 7 November.
A short, intergenerational panel of high-achieving women. Three voices, three generations, one stage. Tap a card to read the seat.
Then one question, asked of all three: what does it actually mean to build a system?
A Saturday, in the closing weeks of 2026, ten days before the movement's global moment on 1 December.
Doors at 5pm, into sunset. Please come early. The listening cut starts on time and we will not restart it.
A cafe and gallery space. The exhibition sits indoors, refreshments outside where the light holds. Full address goes out with your confirmation.
Two hours, from golden hour to last light. There is an open floor, conversation cards and a media corner, so come ready to talk as well as listen.
Applications close on 30 October 2026. We read every one ourselves and we come back to you either way.
Small on purpose. It is a listening room, not an auditorium, and the room only works at this size.
Tell us who you are and why you want to be in the room. We read each application ourselves and we come back to you either way.
Fifty seats, and every guest chosen by hand.
The form opens right here, it takes about two minutes.