Camfed’s vital work to improve educational opportunities for girls in some of the world’s poorest countries has received international recognition with an invitation to co-chair the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) in 2006. The joint role with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) gives Camfed a unique position to transform girls’ educational opportunities in the poorest areas of the world. (more…)

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…)

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…)