Explore our work
Welcome to Camfed's interactive impact map. Using the mapping interface, you can explore our work in Africa. Click on a country to find out more or use the links above to the right of the map to jump to impact information for a specific country.
Overview
Since 1993, Camfed has worked to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS by educating girls and empowering young women. Why? Research shows, when a girl in Africa receives an education she:
- Earns up to 25 percent more income and invests up to 90 percent in her family.
- Is three times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS.
- Has fewer, healthier children who are 40 percent more likely to live past the age of five.
Our work in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana and Tanzania has shown impressive results. For example, in Tanzania, schools supported by Camfed through the Safety Net Fund showed a 37 percent reduction in drop-out rates between 2005 and 2007. In Camfed partner high schools in Zambia, pregnancy rates fell by 9 percent between 2006 and 2008, compared to an increase of 38 percent in a control sample of schools.
Since 1993, we’ve improved the school environment for 1,065,710 children, provided scholarships for 42,184 girls to go to high school, trained 4,068 teacher mentors and helped 769 young women go to college.
Our microfinance program has helped 6,084 women start small businesses and 1,449 expand. We’ve also trained 1,504 community health activists through Cama, the Camfed Association, which has 14,005 African members who advocate for change in rural Africa.
Our vision is of an Africa where poverty is no longer a barrier to education, and where education opens the doors of health, prosperity and possibility to all children.—Ann Cotton, Camfed founder
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Since 1993, we’ve improved the school environment for 1,065,710 children.
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We’ve provided 42,184 girls with all they need to attend and complete high school.
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Our trained mentors provide guidance and assistance to girls in our partner schools.
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We’ve helped 769 young women attend college or professional schools.
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We’ve taught 10,329 young women basic economic skills.
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We’ve provided 6,084women with grants to start small businesses.
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Cama, the Camfed Association, composed of young rural African women, is the largest pan-African network of its kind.
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Cama members, mostly former Camfed scholarship recipients, have helped 118,384 children go to school.
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We’ve trained more than 1,500 women to teach others how to prevent diseases like HIV/AIDS.
