The Global Sisterhood

Welcome to the CAMFED Global Sisterhood, where we believe in the transformative power of education for girls worldwide and creating a ripple effect of positive change across the globe.

Our Global Sisterhood anchors the powerful model we’ve created.

Together, we break barriers, challenge inequalities, and create lasting change in communities across the globe. You’re part of a movement that uplifts and empowers women and girls to unlock their full potential. Together, we’re building a brighter, more equitable future for all.

CAMFED’s model is recognized as one of the boldest solutions for tackling the biggest challenges of our time – and it all starts with supporting a girl to go to school.

Thank you for helping make the world a better place!

How can girls change the world?

For an individual girl, education changes everything. It’s her right, and it unlocks her power to determine who she will become and what she will do with her life.

The result? Young women gain the tools, the status and the confidence to be part of the solution, helping to tackle climate change, reduce gender-based violence and inequality, increase food security, and advance economic justice in their communities.

Thank you for igniting the potential of women worldwide to be the change the world so desperately needs.

How Girls' Education Addresses Global Challenges

Girls’ education has the power to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges – and CAMFED has a revolutionary model for delivering on this promise.

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Reduces Gender-Based Violence: Education increases women’s confidence, knowledge, networks, income potential, and control over their own bodies.
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Combats Global Climate Change: Educated girls can make choices that reduce carbon emissions, and become leaders in sustainable business, climate-smart agriculture and policy.
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Reduces the Gender Poverty Gap: Women who finish secondary school will earn 2x as much as those who never enter a classroom and will be 5x less likely to marry as children.
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Advances Human Rights: Greater gender equality leads to more just, stable, equitable and productive societies that protect human rights and invest in health and education.

Ignite the Multiplier Effect

When you support CAMFED, you’re not just investing in one girl’s education – you’re igniting a multiplier effect of positive change. Educated girls become leaders in their communities, driving progress and empowering others to thrive.

“Girls’ education may be the best and cheapest leverage we have to change the world.”

– NICHOLAS KRISTOF, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST

CAMFED Recognized by Nicholas Kristof

New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof honored CAMFED with his Holiday Impact Prize for the second time since the initiative’s launch in 2019. CAMFED was previously featured as the 2020 Grand Prize Winner and was welcomed back as part of a special readers’ favorite edition in 2023. For the first time ever, Holiday Impact Prize winners were also included in the New York Times Communities Fund, with CAMFED featured as one of the charities for the 2023 appeal.

Nicholas Kristof and The New York Times urge public to support CAMFED

Together, we can change the world

We are led by young women with a shared background of exclusion, who are stepping up for education and equity and multiplying the investment in their education.

"The most effective way to lift families out of poverty is to educate women and girls. CAMFED is making a measurable and lasting impact by doing just that.”

- SIMONE BOYCE, JOURNALIST, HOST & SPEAKER