Lucy Lake, Deputy Executive Director & Director of Programmes, Camfed International
Lucy Lake joined Camfed in 1994 after completing a degree in Human Sciences at Oxford University. Lucy’s motivation to join Camfed was two-fold: her experience working as a teacher in a rural secondary school in Zimbabwe made her acutely aware of the problem of girls’ exclusion; and the ordeal of a court case gave her firsthand insight into the powerlessness of young women to challenge abuse. Since that time, Lucy has coordinated the development of Camfed’s programme to become a model of investment in girls’ education in which the beneficiaries - young educated women - take the reins of the programme, join forces with local and national authorities, and lead change for the younger generation of girls.
Lucy was nominated young entrepreneur of the year in 2002 in the New Statesman and in 2003, featured in ‘50 Women to Watch’ published by the Guardian newspaper. In 2007, she was also nominated as one of 35 top young business women in the UK by the magazine Management Today.
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