We are game changers! Are you?

I support vulnerable rural residents to build resilience in the face of the global climate change emergency – by sharing knowledge and strategies on how to address the impacts we face in rural Zimbabwe.

Meet our climate education experts and activists on CAMFED’s climate-smart demo farm in Chinsali, Zambia. Young women are teaching climate-smart agriculture, growing resilience, fighting hunger, creating jobs, keeping children in school and creating a more equitable world for all of us.

I’m Tawonga. With CAMFED support I completed my education and studied agriculture at EARTH University. Now I am plowing back my climate-smart knowledge into my community and supporting young women farmers to increase their yields and create jobs for other young people.

I’m Tendai from Zimbabwe. CAMFED supported me through school, but illness almost held me back. I persevered and now am studying to become a medical doctor. I want my achievement to benefit my fellow CAMFED Association members, and it should be seen as my community’s achievement.

Because I am a CAMFED Association member, I believe in the power of giving back to my society. The day I delivered a baby on the roadside, I was motivated to help her deliver safely because of my love for rural women and children.

CAMFED Association members trained as Learner Guides act as peer-support mentors who volunteer in schools. They provide vital sexual and reproductive health information, work to prevent HIV/AIDS and keep girls safe from exploitation.

I’m Martha from Mpika district in Zambia. I was recently recruited, along with 116 of my fellow sisters in the CAMFED Association by the Teaching Service Commission to start my first teaching post.

I am ever grateful to CAMFED, which came to my rescue and paid my fees to help me complete school. I see a lot of “Lucias” – girls just like me, who are really in need. I hope I inspire them the way my sisters in the CAMFED Association inspire me every day.

I was the first CAMFED Association member in Tanzania to qualify as a Teacher and also trained as a Teacher Mentor. I provide additional guidance and counselling to vulnerable students in my school.

CAMFED Association members trained as Business Guides help their peers to start and grow successful businesses, so they can create jobs for themselves and others, build a brighter future, and enable the next generation of children to thrive in school.

I am an entrepreneur, farming potatoes on four acres of land, running a piggery, and an agroforestry business. Through my businesses, I am able to provide employment opportunities for my community.

I am not an ordinary young woman. I am a business woman. I am walking through the streets of success with optimism of a greater future ahead.

In my experience as a Learner Guide I have developed the ability to stand and talk in front of people. I got business training. The money I save, I use for family issues because my family is poor. My goal in business is that I wish to be a great businesswoman.

CAMFED Association members trained as Transition Guides provide mentoring and skills support to their younger peers as they get ready to leave school, supporting them to develop their economic independence and leadership.

I am proud of the progress made by my learners, seeing them become more confident and resilient through my mentoring and guidance. With the skills I have learned in my role, I feel better equipped to tackle community issues.

I assist young women from rural areas by providing them with current information updates and help them adapt to the new normal where everything is digitalized, such as online applications to Universities and colleges, virtual interviews and digital marketing for those in business.

Studying ICT has really helped me to understand the modern world I am living in. I am still surprised and amazed at how computers work and I want to understand how we can use them to benefit all society. 

Coming into this training, being exposed to this kind of technology — it uplifted my spirit; I thought ‘there is another opportunity, there is life again; I can make it, I can dream again.’ Having that transition of status in society, I felt I was a different person.