Chief Executive Officer

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Members of CAMFED's global sisterhood speak about all things girls' education and women's leadership and how - together - we rise by lifting others.
Chief Executive Officer
Angeline understands from experience both the desire for education and the enormous hurdles girls face in securing their right to education. In a spirit of solidarity with those facing the same struggles she has overcome, Angeline became a key founding member of the CAMFED Association (CAMA) a powerful pan-African network of women leaders educated with CAMFED support. CAMFED Association members are united by a background of rural poverty, and by one goal: to ensure that no girl is excluded – that every girl secures her right to go to school. Association members are stepping up as a new generation of leaders and entrepreneurs in their communities, as well as at national and international level.
In 2009, Angeline’s story featured in ‘Half the Sky’, a book by award-winning writers Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. In 2017, Angeline was recognized as one of the 100 most influential women by the BBC, and the Clara Lionel Foundation presented Angeline with the 2017 Diamond Ball Honours Award, recognizing her past, present and future support of young leaders, entrepreneurship and civic engagement. In 2020, Angeline Murimirwa and Lucy Lake were awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Development as Co-Executives of CAMFED, for their contribution to female education, and joined the newly-established Council of Luminaries. Angeline accepted the 2020 Kristof Holiday Impact Prize and the 2021 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize on behalf of our movement. Her 2023 TED Talk, representing that year’s Audacious cohort, brought CAMFED’s unique leadership model to an audience of millions. Angeline has shared platforms with Michelle Obama, the Hon Julia Gillard AC, and The Duchess of Sussex, underscoring the urgency of addressing girls’ education as the foundation for achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals.
Angeline has served as a member of the Zimbabwe Education Coordination Group; on the Board of the Zimbabwe National Youth Council; and represented CAMFED on the Education Coordination Group and the UNAIDS Gender Task Force.
Members of CAMFED's global sisterhood speak about all things girls' education and women's leadership and how - together - we rise by lifting others.
"We cannot understand development unless we see it through the eyes of girls and women." - The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister of State…
CAMFED has launched its Vision for 2030 - an ambitious plan to help meet the global Sustainable Development Goals by supporting millions more girls in…
CAMFED's Angie Murimirwa and Lydia Wilbard attended the Women Deliver 2023 conference to share their expertise at a number of sessions, including in the Education…
Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa, CEO of CAMFED, helped found our sisterhood of leaders for girls’ education – the CAMFED Association – 25 years ago. Watch her…
CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education, is launching Sisterhood Week, an awareness week that highlights the power of sisterhood, and rising by lifting others.
Denver Frederick, the host of the The Business of Giving podcast, discusses CAMFED's holistic and transformative model of girls' education in Africa with CAMFED CEO…
Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED's CEO, and Lydia Wilbard, CAMFED's Executive Director: Learning and Engagement, have spoken in a newly-released interview about the importance of recognizing and…
CAMFED has been selected by The Audacious Project for its plan to transform the lives of millions of girls in sub-Saharan Africa.
2023 is a milestone year for CAMFED: we celebrate our 30th anniversary, and we will see the membership of the CAMFED Association surpass a quarter…
Thank you for being part of our movement! In the face of so many challenges, CAMFED’s global community has provided girls with the support they…
Watch these highlights from the conversation recorded live at the 2022 Hilton Humanitarian Prize Symposium and Prize Ceremony hosted by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
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