Mentors Matter – CAMFED Supports Ghana’s Guidance & Counselling Strategy
Guidance and counselling, and the crucial role of Teacher Mentors in supporting the mental wellbeing of marginalized students, were at the heart of the Annual…
Dorcas Apoore: A young leader on the global stage
At the age of 23, Dorcas Apoore’s list of achievements is astonishing. A young woman from a vulnerable background, she has overcome all odds to…
Health & Education: Connecting the dots
On Thursday 17 May, Faith Nkala, National Director of CAMFED Zimbabwe, CAMFED alumna and founding member of the CAMA network, travelled to Brussels to participate…
Steria
Steria is a secondary scholar from Malawi, supported by CAMFED and the Mastercard Foundation. She would like to be a nurse one day to support…
Headwoman Kalima
Headwoman Kalima is a farmer, traditional leader, and CAMFED Community Champion, overseeing the activities in her rural village in Zambia. She is actively involved in…
Angie Murimirwa
Many of CAMFED's supporters in North America got to know Angie's story from the best-selling book ‘Half the Sky’ by Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn,…
Isaac
Isaac is one of six children, three girls and three boys. His father is a part-time builder and his mother is unemployed. The family struggled…
Tafadzwa
Tafadzwa is the youngest of six children. His parents work on a farm in exchange for accommodation, and his home is 7 km away from…
Lameck
Lameck, along with his mother and sister, has dwarfism, a disability that has caused a painful barrier to his education. His father passed away several…
3 ways young women are championing quality education to transform a continent
CAMFED has stayed optimistic over the last 25 years, because we know that educating girls and supporting young women’s leadership presents a powerful solution to…
Raising my voice for justice and gender equality
I feel a sense of injustice for my mother. She was just a girl when she married my father, a much older man. When he…
Growing up with a disability did not stop me becoming who I am today
"Growing up with a disability did not stop me becoming who I am today, it was actually my greatest motivation. It made me want to…