Camfed Director Lucy Lake has been invited to speak about the importance of education for young women across sub-Saharan Africa at a global conference in Beijing organised by the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI). (more…)

Camfed brought together traditional leaders from rural areas of Zimbabwe earlier this month to tackle some of the problems facing young women in their communities.Eleven chiefs from some of the most remote rural areas of the country pledged to become more active in protecting girls from abuse in their chiefdoms. The chiefs also recognised the importance of challenging some of the harmful customs that undermine young women’s health and safety – including marrying girls as young as 16 and virginity testing. (more…)

Six teachers from the Northern Region of Ghana swapped classrooms earlier this month with schools across East Anglia as part of Camfed’s Schools Partnership Project. The teachers’ exchange was organised by Camfed in partnership with the Harambee Centre for Development Education, to encourage greater understanding between children in the UK and Ghana. (more…)