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Becoming literate in life

On International #LiteracyDay we celebrate the young women in our CAMA alumnae network, who are returning to their local schools in rural Tanzania as Learner…

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When Talent was eight years old, her father passed away. When she was 10, her mother, in an effort to take care of all of…

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Five strategies to achieve the 2030 education goals

Alice Saisha, CAMFED Association member and United Nation Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) Youth Representative, uses her experience to detail the five strategies we need to…

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CAMFED alumna named UN Girls’ Education Initiative Youth Representative

Today, on International Youth Day, the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) announced that CAMFED alumna Alice from Zambia was chosen as its Global Advisory…

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Our progress toward educating one million adolescent girls

With the release of its latest impact metrics, CAMFED is raising the bar for what can be achieved in girls’ education in sub-Saharan Africa. Through…

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NewsCAMFED Association (CAMA)United Kingdom

Girls’ Education Forum: Taking the Revolution Worldwide

7th July 2016, London: CAMFED alumna Fiona Mavhinga and Nasikiwa Duke were invited to represent CAMA, CAMFED’s 55,000-strong pan-African alumnae network, at the Girls’ Education…

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Gloria Steinem meets CAMFED Association leaders tackling child marriage in Zambia

Shortly after the launch of the Viceland series WOMAN with Gloria Steinem, Executive Producer Amy Richards took world-renowned feminist Gloria Steinem and a group of…

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BlogCAMFED Association (CAMA)Multiple countries

That day I knew: Gloria Steinem is one of us

Alice Saisha, CAMFED Association member, tells of when Gloria Steinem came to Zambia to learn about child marriage, and how she came to learn that…

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An unstoppable human revolution

CAMFED at the Girls’ Education Forum, July 7th, 2016 #SheWill Once among the most vulnerable and excluded, CAMFED alumna Fiona Mavhinga travelled to London this…

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CAMFED’s Ann Cotton Speaks With Sirius XM

As one of 5,000 activists, experts and leaders in attendance addressing women and girls' issues on a global level.

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Education that ‘leaves no one behind’: Lucy Lake shares insights

The commitment to ‘leave no one behind’ is at the center of discussions on the post-2015 education framework needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4:…

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The distance to school is not only about the distance you walk

CAMFED's CEO, Lucy Lake, looks at the role of the Learner Guide programme in improving marginalised girls' confidence and self esteem so that they not…

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