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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

Angeline Murimirwa Accepts Diamond Ball Award from Clara Lionel Foundation

Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED’s Regional Executive Director, founding member of CAMFED’s alumnae association, and one of the first girls supported by our organization, was honored at…

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BlogCommunity ChampionsMultiple countries

Five lessons for harvesting success through home-grown school meal programs

In light of International Day of Charity, Angeline Murimirwa, Regional Executive Director of CAMFED Africa, tells of the lessons she has learned from establishing home-grown…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Zimbabwe

Celebrating charity with built-in sustainability

This International Day of Charity, we celebrate the philanthropy that happens in our communities every day — where time, love and labor multiply the financial contributions we…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

Building Trust in Girls’ Education

In her interview with Jihii Jolly from News Deeply Women and Girls, Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED’s Regional Executive Director for Eastern and Southern Africa (and one…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

We need global action on girls’ education — and here’s what works

It’s Global Action Week on Education, and today’s letter from the UK’s International Development Committee (IDC) to the Secretary of State for International Development couldn’t…

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BlogLearner GuidesMultiple countries

We need global action on girls’ education — and here’s what works

In light of Global Action Week for Education, a time when members of the public across the world come together to take targeted action for…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

Fear doesn’t live here – CAMFED Association leaders confronting inequality

At this week’s Skoll World Forum on Entrepreneurship in Oxford, UK, CAMFED joins delegates from nearly 65 countries under the uniting  theme “Fault Lines: Creating…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

Pearson extends partnership with CAMFED for girls’ education in Africa

Today CAMFED’s CEO, Lucy Lake, and CAMFED Zimbabwe’s Women Empowerment Manager, Sinikiwe Makove, join Pearson’s Chief Corporate Affairs and Global Marketing Officer, Kate James, at…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

Cambridge researchers delve into CAMFED data

On January 24th, the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge kicked off its…

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BlogHealthZimbabwe

I’ve experienced how periods push girls out of school

Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED’s Executive Director - Africa, shares her experiences growing up in a very resource-poor area of rural Zimbabwe to highlight how period poverty…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

How periods are pushing girls out of school

According to UNESCO, 10% of adolescent girls in Africa miss school during their period. They miss an average of 528 school days — nearly two years of…

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BlogCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

The young women bringing hope to Africa

Fiona Mavhinga, Executive Advisor for the CAMFED Association, reflects on 2016, a year of change, uncertainty and in many corners of the world, true suffering.…

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