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MacArthur Foundation: CAMFED among Top 100 world-changing solutions

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today revealed that CAMFED’s proposal to its 100&Change competition was one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as…

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Celebrating the power of peer support on Galentine’s Day

This year CAMFED is marking Galentine’s Day (February 13) with a celebration of peer support. This now internationally-recognized day offers a chance for women around…

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CAMFED’s multiplier effect in Forbes

In her latest column for Forbes, the president and CEO of King Philanthropies, Kim Starkey Jonker, highlights the self-generated activism of the CAMFED Association. The…

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Together we can: CAMFED 2019 highlights

This year, as we celebrated our 25th anniversary, you helped us to usher in a new era, with the young women educated through CAMFED’s support…

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African women leading climate action – CAMFED’s UN award at COP25

CAMFED received the 2019 UN Climate Action Award in the ‘Women for Results’ category for young women’s grassroots action on climate change in rural sub-Saharan…

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365 Days of Activism against gender based violence

Founding CAMFED Association member and National Director of CAMFED Zimbabwe, Faith Nkala, underlined the importance of all children being able to complete their education without…

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Driving action against child marriage and early pregnancy

Last month, our International Day of the Girl celebrations shone a light on our community activists driving action against child marriage and early pregnancy —…

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CAMFED’s My Better World curriculum comes to television screens

A new series currently being aired on Kenyan television is bringing CAMFED’s My Better World curriculum to a large new audience. The life skills and…

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Day of the Girl: Uniting communities to end child marriage

Every year, more than 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. Fuelled by poverty, child marriage is a fundamental violation of human…

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Teamwork is crucial to achieving SDG4: Quality Education

CAMFED welcomes the release of a new report by the Education Commission - Transforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation - which…

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CAMFED Patron Julia Gillard on the lasting effect of girls’ education

In a new article for Australia’s Teacher Magazine, CAMFED Patron Julia Gillard writes about her belief in girls’ education as the foundation for equality and…

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CAMFED Annual Review 2018 – Unlocking a powerful force for change

Today the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) released its 2018 Annual Review. The latest numbers speak to the power of young women’s leadership, with 140,000…

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