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Non-profit Camfed to educate more than one million girls by 2020

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The non-profit, which operates in Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi has announced it is more than a third of the way to reaching an initial goal of supporting more than one million girls in Sub-Saharan African through secondary school by 2020.

It pledged to do so in late 2014, as part of the CHARGE (Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls’ Education) Initiative.

The initiative is co-led by No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project and the Center on Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. This pledge also coincides with the UN Global Goals on ending poverty and fighting injustice and inequality by 2030.

Camfed has surpassed the 2015 goal by more than 42 percent, totaling 389,793 girls supported to date under the commitment, it said in a statement.

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Camfed’s growth and impact is being multiplied by CAMA, the organization’s 55,358 member-strong alumnae network. In line with Camfed’s goal to create a sustainable model of opportunity and community support, CAMA and community partners supported more than 60 per cent of these girls.

The organisation invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, it also helps them into new lives as entrepreneurs and community leaders.

Graduating students of Camfed then become CAMA alumnae, many of whom return to school to train and mentor new generations of students. Since 1993, Camfed’s innovative community-led education programs have benefited nearly four million children in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi.

CEO of Camfed, Lucy Lake said the organisation takes it role of female education seriously “by putting our hearts and experience together for the service of girls and women. We’ve seen that providing girls with the education and skills they need, empowering them to succeed, and to in turn support their communities creates astounding returns on investment.”

Camfed Ghana launched in 1998, working in the Northern Region, and is now operating in four regions and 31 districts.

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So far it has supported 59, 048 girls to go to secondary school and 116, 393 to go to primary school in Ghana.

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