CAMFED catalyzes the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine: for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa.
What we do
Through the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their countries face - from child marriage, and girls’ exclusion from education, to unemployment and climate change.
Social justice starts with educated girls, supporting each other to become independent, influential women, working together with communities to provide equal access to tools and opportunities for all.
When women gain access to skills training, resources and opportunities to grow rural enterprises, they gain economic independence and agency, supporting themselves, their families and communities to thrive.
Educated women make choices that reduce future carbon emissions and increase community resilience to climate change, including through leadership for sustainable futures and the adoption of climate-smart technologies.
Nicholas Kristof & The New York Times recommend CAMFED as heroic cause this giving season
Read why and donate todayOur grassroots-led movement is transforming the lives of girls and their communities by educating a new generation of game changers:
Since 1993, we have supported 6,476,311 children to go to school in Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, including 1.8M girls at secondary school
The CAMFED Association - our powerful network of women leaders educated with CAMFED support - is 254,470 strong and counting
Evidence shows that girls supported by CAMFED are three times less likely to drop out of school
Learning outcomes among girls supported by CAMFED have significantly improved, and 95% say they are better able to shape their life goals
CAMFED graduates can join Africa’s largest and fastest-growing sisterhood of leaders, the CAMFED Association. Each member, on average, supports another 3 girls to go to school with her own resources, as well as mentoring and encouraging many more. And as a network of activists, we create employment and opportunity, tackling inequality and injustice.
This is the CAMFED Multiplier Effect, and what Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times calls a “perpetual motion machine” — the positive impact a girl’s education has on others’ lives.
Discover CAMFED's Multiplier Effect
Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa, CEO of CAMFED, helped found our sisterhood of leaders for girls’ education – the CAMFED Association – 25 years ago. Watch her TED Talk to see the world through the eyes of a girl in rural Africa, find out why school is not enough, and experience the difference that a ‘Big Sister’ can make.
Eliza Chikoti from Malawi and Natasha Lwanda from Zambia traveled to represent our movement at a leadership symposium for a select group convened by the Obama Foundation.
Come behind the scenes at CAMFED’s climate-smart teaching farm in Chinsali, Zambia - subject of a video-led feature for the Evening Standard's 'Let Girls Learn' series.
View a list of upcoming events about girls' education, women's leadership, and climate action with CAMFED leaders, or catch up on some past events.
CNN’s African Voices Changemakers highlights the leadership of Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa and her sisters in the CAMFED Association, deploying their lived experience and deep expertise to achieve gender equality, economic development and climate action through girls’ education.
We are thrilled that CAMFED has been awarded the 2021 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest annual humanitarian award presented to a nonprofit in recognition of extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering.
Betty Schwab $25
Jonathan Brody $40
Bonne Mogulescu $150
William Wiedmann $150
Adrianna Timmons $360
Lizbeth Garcia $10
Niall Doherty $370
Nicola Riley €300
John Benson £20
Gareth Waldram £342
Greta Bonnaud £630
Benj Schneider £1600
Martha King $1000
Lara Kenny £5
David Wells $15
