ABL Programs International Programs "Project Africa" Initiative In 2006, in collaboration with the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board where she is a member, the First Lady of Zambia Maureen Mwanawasa and her Maureen Mwanawasa Community Initiative (MMCI), Anna initiated and launched the “Project Africa” initiative.  The goal is to annually bring “vulnerable but viable” talented, underserved young women from Zambia to have the opportunity to partake in ABL’s award winning seven-week Summer Business Institute (SBI) on college campuses to develop their leadership and business education skills and return to their home country empowered with a new vision to enable them to help uplift themselves, their families, their communities, and ultimately build the leadership capacity for Zambia while providing an opportunity of a lifetime to American students who have a chance to reach out and touch Africa by sharing, collaborating and exchanging ideas on how to improve the human condition on a global level.  In addition, American students are able to learn from the dialogues and experiences of the Zambian scholars and gain insight, cultural understanding, inspiration and motivation and vice versa.  Similarly, in the Summer of 2007, through her work with the Zambian Scholars, Anna formulated the ABL Zambia Ambassadors Program (AZAP) as part of the ABL Zambia pre-launch effort which comes in the aftermath of her trip to Zambia in April of 2007 as a guest of her Excellency, the First Lady of Zambia Maureen Mwanawasa.  As part of AZAP, the ABL Zambian Scholars will be training 200 high school graduates and college students to reach 4,000 youth by December of 2008.  Their goal is to conduct HIV-AIDS prevention education; nutrition, hygiene, and health awareness; and values and leadership training.  In 2008, Anna is leading the Social Impact Contract™ (SIC™) training program for American, Zambian, Chinese, Korean, and Canadian scholars in Southern California, as well as Egyptian, Kuwaiti, and Jordanian scholars at Harvard.     “Project Asia” Initiative In 2007, in collaboration with the Oxford School Foundation, ABL initated and launched the “Project Asia” initiative to bring girls from China. The hope was to offer international students the opportunity to learn business skills and leadership that they can then bring back to their home countries and to also introduction the American students to international collaboration. In 2008, ABL expanded the international initiative to include youth from South Korea and Canada in addition to Zambia and China. “Middle East” Initiative For the summer of 2007, Anna was asked by the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board to design and implement a leadership training for young Egyptian girls as part of the Harvard Future Women Leaders Fellows Program (FWLF) that they sponsored to take co-curricular classes at Harvard College.  For the Harvard leadership program, Anna designed and launched the Social Impact Contract™ (SIC™) concept and developed a training where youth have an opportunity to design large-scale, high-impact projects that entail training other youth to pay it forward, thus affecting the lives of thousands in a relatively short period of time.  In 2007, as part of the Harvard training, Anna coached the young Egyptian girls to design the concept and model for a social entrepreneurial venture they called “Lena” meaning "for us" in the Egyptian Arabic dialect.  The mission of Lena is to help youth develop a sense of belonging towards Egypt; tolerance towards all religions; and leadership skills.  The Egyptian girls will develop curricula and build partnerships to train 300 college students in Cairo who will in turn work with 3,000 kids throughout Egypt by the Summer of 2009.  In 2008, Anna was appointed as the Inaugural Chair of the Harvard FWLF Task Force.