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CAMFED
CAMFED is a pan-African, grassroots-led movement tackling poverty, inequality and injustice through girls’ education and women’s leadership. Focusing on vulnerable girls and young women in rural areas of Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage, and where unlocking their power has a transformative impact to turn the tide of poverty. CAMFED catalyzes the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine: for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa, supporting them to learn, thrive and lead change.
CAMFED was founded in 1993 by Ann Cotton OBE. It began in Zimbabwe with scholarships to a group of 32 girls. Claire Milner met Ann in the early nineties, at the very beginnings of the organisation and they bonded over a shared love of Africa. Milner had just returned to Cambridge from an extended African trip which inspired the painting ‘Mother and Child’, a mixed media work which was exhibited in a gallery in Cambridge. It was acquired by CamFed, who subsequently commissioned further artworks to form a series called 'Chipo's Path to School', raising awareness of the distances, obstacles and hazards faced by girls trying to attend school.
Support for the charity has today been extended to more than 6.4 million children through a network of partner schools in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. CAMFED has received numerous awards for the humanitarian impact and scale of its programs.