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…)

Camfed’s work with young women received a significant boost this summer when the Big Lottery Fund awarded a generous grant of £355,829 to support Camfed’s expanding programme in Tanzania. With these new funds, Camfed will be able to help 16,500 girls in the impoverished Iringa Region of Tanzania to complete primary school and go on to secondary school. (more…)

In June, best-selling author and journalist Allison Pearson launched Camfed’s Class of 2010 Appeal to raise support for 2,000 girls in Africa to complete secondary school in 2010. Since then, Camfed’s supporters have pledged an astonishing £65,000 over the next four years to help some of the poorest girls in Africa. (more…)

Over the last two years, a network of eighty Mothers’ Support Groups has sprung up across Zimbabwe to help some of the poorest children in these communities to go to school. With Camfed’s support and encouragement, these remarkable women are working across 14 districts to provide a safety net of financial and practical support to thousands of children. (more…)

While Camfed gave one young woman from rural Tanzania the opportunity to share her story with the world’s First Ladies in New York last month, across the Atlantic another Camfed graduate from Zimbabwe was sharing a platform with politicians and policy makers in London. (more…)