During May, teachers from 4 schools in East Anglia embarked on the trip of a lifetime to visit children and teachers in their remote partner schools in northern Ghana. The UK teachers have spent the last 2 years bringing the spirit of Africa to their classrooms with pupils in the UK and Ghana exchanging letters, drawings and poems as part of Camfed’s Schools Partnership Project. Camfed’s partners, Harambee and RAINS, work together to encourage greater understanding between children in the UK and Ghana. (more…)

Camfed and the other members of the Make Poverty History Campaign will join thousands of others as the leaders of the world’s richest countries gather in Scotland for the G8 Summit. As part of the campaign, Camfed has been fighting to make sure the politicians know that girls’ education is the best way to Make Poverty History! We have 20 tickets to the pop concert at Murrayfield Stadium on July 6th to share with our supporters. (more…)

The heat and sun can get to us all at times, but imagine if you were trying to get to school, on foot in Mola – a dry rural area of Zimbabwe. Now imagine that your skin lacks the defences to protect you against the sun and you are constantly at risk of sunstroke and burning. Camfed is pulling together with the community in Mola to help 10 albino children in Mola get the protection they need to walk to school safely each day. (more…)

Inspired by a talk given by Camfed patron and Evening Standard columnist, Allison Pearson, Maureen Stapleton decided she would go that extra mile to support girls in Africa to go to school. In fact she went an extra 26 miles – completing the gruelling London Marathon last month! (more…)

During this year’s Global Action Week for Education, 24th – 30th April, thousands of activists across 110 countries delivered an urgent message to their governments – education is the key to ending poverty – and Camfed was amongst those in Zambia to campaign for increased access to education. (more…)

The countdown is on to the G8 summit, being held at Gleneagles, Scotland from July 6-8, when world leaders will decide how best to help the world’s poor. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have spent the last few months making promises of investment, especially in Africa, and Camfed has been advising them of the long term benefits of investing in girls’ education. In January, Camfed representatives from the UK and Ghana met Gordon Brown and Hilary Benn at a breakfast meeting at No.11 Downing Street with Carol Bellamy, Head of UNICEF, and other campaigners from across the world. (more…)