CAMFED Annual Review 2025

Comprehensive support for girls to go to school, learn and thrive

CAMFED partners with communities, schools and governments to tackle the multiple barriers marginalized girls face to accessing and succeeding in school. Our support is holistic, combining material and psychosocial support. We convene a network around each girl to help her to access and stay in school.

• In 2025, 772,844 girls newly benefited from economic, social and academic support through CAMFED’s programs – putting us well on track to support 8 million girls by 2030
• Of those, 82,348 girls were newly supported through donor funds, 565,997 through CAMFED Association support and 124,499 through community support

8,525 young people trained as Learner Guides — peer mentors helping children thrive in school

Learner Guides are young women in the CAMFED Association, who volunteer as peer mentors to support the next generation of children in their communities to access and thrive in school. The Learner Guide program is now active in 8,201 schools across six countries – in nearly one third of these, the government is playing a leading part in the roll-out.

• 25,467 Learner Guides were active in 8,201 schools in Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2025
• 8,525 Learner Guides were newly trained in 2025, with 46,336 trained cumulatively
• Each Learner Guide reached 93 children on average with social and learning support in 2025

Parent Support Groups provide vital meals for school children

CAMFED also partners with parents, who volunteer their time and resources in Parent Support Groups. At each school, these groups bring together local parents and community members to provide support to vulnerable children. This support includes counselling and mentoring, as well as school meal initiatives, which improve attendance and help children to concentrate during school.

As CAMFED Community Champions, parents join teachers, traditional leaders and local officials who work hand-in-hand with members of the CAMFED Association of women leaders to take responsibility for the welfare and success of their most vulnerable girls, matching international donor contributions with resources generated locally, ensuring that girls have the necessary wraparound support to attend and thrive in school.

Partnering with governments to support children at scale

CAMFED is partnering with governments to embed best practices in national school systems and ensure these better serve the needs of all children. Building on our core in-school and post-school programs, this strand of our strategy is transforming the lives of entire generations.

• In Ghana, key content from the CAMFED My Better World resources is now being delivered in weekly sessions to all Senior High Schools across Ghana as part of the government’s Values Handbook, reaching an estimated 450,000 new learners each year.
• In Kenya, more than 300 Learner Guides have begun volunteering in their communities, delivering My Better World life skills sessions to youth across all eight sub-counties in Kajiado.
• In Malawi, Guides trained in partnership with the government as Learner Mentors reached over 740,000 children across 2,605 primary schools with critical wellbeing and life skills sessions.
• In Tanzania, the government accredited CAMFED’s My Better World guidebook in October 2025, meaning it can now be used in all secondary schools. CAMFED is partnering with the government to roll out the Learner Guide model in 41 new districts.
• In Zambia, the new National Curriculum, including content from the My Better World program, was rolled out nationwide in 2025. This was estimated to reach approximately 350,000 secondary school learners by the end of 2025, increasing to cover the whole secondary school population by the end of the phased roll-out in 2028.
• In Zimbabwe, CAMFED partnered with the government to train 1,090 Learner Guides as Peer Educators, who have now reached over half a million children across 35 districts with life skills and academic support by the end of 2025.