The leading champion for girls’ education in Zambia has been named as the new Executive Director of CAMFED Zambia. Barbara Chilangwa is highly respected across sub-Saharan Africa for implementing wide-ranging education reforms to help more girls get into school during her tenure as Zambia’s Permanent Secretary of Education. (more…)

Matildah Mwamba always knew she wanted to make a difference. Growing up in Zambia’s copper mining belt, she used to pretend to be a teacher – giving lessons to her five younger brothers and sisters and other children during the holidays. Matildah took her passion into the classrooms of rural Zambia, working as a primary teacher for 17 years. But over the years, she became despondent about the lack of educational opportunities for girls. She decided it was time to help all those girls who had never had the chance to be educated because their families were too poor to send them to school. (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…)