Be the spark of change for a girl today and support her future tomorrow
CAMFED supports girls in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to access school, learn, thrive and become leaders of change in their communities. Our partner communities are among the most deprived in the region – far removed from hospitals, lacking public infrastructure, and often situated on the poorest land. This persistent poverty pushes vulnerable girls out of school and into unsafe work or child marriage.
CAMFED’s model sees girls’ education as the first step in social change. It shows that partnering with communities to unlock the leadership potential of groups of girls and women at the margins of society creates a multiplier effect like no other, delivering the only sustainable and scalable way of addressing the world’s problems with the urgency required.
CAMFED’s programmes tackle poverty and inequality by providing the financial and social support girls need to learn, thrive and lead. We see girls’ education as the route to systems change, rather than a temporary fix of systems that keep failing the most marginalised. We do this through a three-pronged approach, providing each girl with tailored support during school, beyond school, and into her future.
We work in a context where families struggling to provide regular meals simply can’t afford to send their girls to school, so CAMFED provides targeted financial support to cover a wide range of school-going costs.
These include the required school uniform and shoes, fees, books, and school supplies, as well as items that address the additional hurdles girls face, including menstrual products and bicycles or boarding fees, ensuring that girls can travel long distances more safely, or board directly at schools far away from their villages.
In schools, girls benefit from the support of Learner Guides – young women in the CAMFED Association – who return to their local schools to support vulnerable children in their studies and deliver a uniquely tailored life skills and well-being programme called My Better World.
Read more about our Learner Guides
Our programmes provide continued support after girls graduate and join the CAMFED Association, our unique peer support and leadership network. Through the network, young women gain access to pastoral support and practical training in life, financial, business and leadership skills, health and well-being, and can access employment and further education opportunities. The network allows young women to connect across industries and employment sectors.
Our enterprise programmes support young women to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, contributing to jobs and prosperity in their communities, and enabling them to support their own, as well as other children, to go to school.
Read more about Enterprise Development
We partner with governments to transform education systems to better serve the needs of all children.
Every step of the way, we work with the authorities and policymakers who have the power to open doors — doors to the classroom for girls who’ve become young mothers, for example; and doors to technical training, higher education, employment and entrepreneurship for young women graduates in underserved communities. These include Ministries and agencies responsible for Gender, Youth, Employment and Agriculture, as we work together in innovative ways to advance girls’ and women’s rights and wellbeing and create employment, as well as sustainable business and leadership opportunities.
Read more about scaling our interventions
Donating is one of the easiest, most impactful, and reliable ways you can help ensure we’re able to be there for girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa, no matter what challenges we face.
As well as making sure that your loved ones are provided for, writing your will can also be an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the world. Legacy gifts left to CAMFED impact whole communities in Sub-Saharan Africa for generations to come.
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Join Team CAMFED today and raise vital funds to support girls’ education in Africa, in a way that has meaning for you.
Donate securities directly to CAMFED to support girls through their education and beyond.
As one way of saying thank you, we invite our loyal and generous donors to join the CAMFED Circle, which affords Members the opportunity to connect deeply with the impact their giving has in effecting transformative change in rural communities.
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As well as paying school fees and other essentials, such as uniforms, books, and menstrual products, your gift helps beyond the classroom, supporting young graduates with the training and resources they need to become economically independent leaders in their communities.
Over 90% of every dollar we spend goes to our programs.
CAMFED International can reclaim Gift Aid from the tax you pay for the current year. It doesn’t cost you a penny, and helps us do even more.
Gift Aid allows charities to claim back the basic rate tax already paid on donations by a donor. When a UK taxpayer donates money to CAMFED, tax has already been paid on that money. Because you are exempt from tax, we are able to claim this money back from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Aimee Turner $209
Simon Hoverstadt £250
Hugh Constant $10
Anaya Pouget £400
Jacquetta Devine $10.9
Lola Damstra €11
Victoria Liakos $5.6
Alexi Culbertson $421
Laureen Peters ₣63.3
Deena Alshatti £52.2
Bruce Lieberman $47.6
Stephanie Moore $5.6
Sahand Zp £21
Robin Kimbrough-Dibble $14
Grace Hoel $20
