Phiona Mutesi is a Ugandan chess player.[1] She is not certain when she was born, although FIDE has estimated it to be 1993.[2][1] She grew up in the Ugandan slum of Katwe, where as of 2011 fifty percent of teen girls are mothers; when Phiona was about three her father died of AIDS and shortly after her older sister Juliet died of an unknown cause.[1] When Phiona was about nine, and had already dropped out of school as her family could not afford to send her, she found a chess program run by the Sports Outreach Institute, which taught her how to play chess.[1] As of 2011 she is a three-time Women's Junior Champion of Uganda.[3] She played on board 2 for Uganda at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010).[3] Furthermore, she is the youngest person ever to win the African chess championship.[4]