CAMFED 2021 Highlights

CAMFED was honored with the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest annual humanitarian award, in August, and joined an inspiring Prize ceremony in October, celebrating with the Hilton Prize community, partners and supporters.

Members of our Sisterhood of climate activists in the CAMFED Association headed to Glasgow (by train and virtually) to participate in several events hosted in and around the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, in November.

CAMFED’s Angeline Murimirwa, Fiona Mavhinga, Lydia Wilbard and Barbara Chilangwa joined three global conversations hosted by the Hilton Foundation and Devex underscoring the power of communities.

CAMFED Chief Executive Officer Lucy Lake and CAMFED Association Executive Adviser Fiona Mavhinga attended several days of celebratory events hosted by the Spanish Royal Family to mark the 2021 Princess of Asturias Awards, “Spain’s Nobel Prize.”

Together with the Yidan Prize Foundation and the University of Cambridge, CAMFED hosted a conference at Jesus College, Cambridge on October 7th, 2021 and announced a new research partnership with the REAL Centre.

We celebrated the achievements of 190 Mastercard Foundation Scholars at CAMFED Malawi, who have secured places at university. Meet Scholars Fyness and Victoria, representing young women full of hope and ambition.

On September 23, Professor Caroline Nombo — Deputy Permanent Secretary at Tanzania’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology — underscored support for scaling CAMFED’s award-winning Learner Guide Program across the government school system.

CAMFED Zambia was honored to be joined by Mr Douglas Siakalima, the Minister of Education at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka to celebrate our 20th anniversary at our Annual General Meeting.

Relive a number of events, and learn more about the reports and research findings highlighting CAMFED Ghana’s recent progress in supporting girls to thrive at school, and boosting young women’s entrepreneurial and leadership ambitions.

Three young women at the forefront of our movement were awarded prestigious Mastercard Foundation-EARTH University Graduate Fellowships to enable them to grow CAMFED’s climate-smart Agriculture Guide Program.

We are grateful to all the journalists and writers who took the time to learn about our movement, speak to our young women leaders, and bring their expertise to a global audience. See some of our media highlights here.

We featured the power of young women life skills mentors (or Learner Guides) like Dyness, who deploy their lived experience and empathy in support of more girls in their communities, and feature in a TV & radio series produced by Impact(Ed) International.

One year on from the #InspiredByMeghan #InspiredByHarry fundraiser for CAMFED, initiated by the ‘Sussex Squad,’ we shared updates from young women in Zambia, who are pursuing higher education thanks to the generosity of supporters across the globe.

On International Women’s Day, our Sisterhood of women leaders created a wave of support and outreach to girls and communities to mark the day.  From taking part in television interviews on Ghana TV, to a virtual dialogue held by CAMFED Association members in Zimbabwe, we continued to make our voices heard across Africa and the wider world. 

We launched into the first year of our 5-year strategic plan (2021-25) to support the education of five million girls in sub-Saharan Africa. Our goal is centered on the ‘Multiplier Effect,’ whereby women who have been supported by CAMFED through school provide social and economic support to the next generation.