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Follow on Google News | Camfed Alumnae Leaders at One Young World Summit 2014Young African rural women, who journeyed from exclusion to leadership, tell the world that meaningful entrepreneurship “brings agency, power and ownership to our communities”
By: Camfed Watch Fiona Mavingha Address the Education Plenary Session Live on Saturday, 18 October 2014 5 PM – 7 PM (http://www.oneyoungworld.com/ The One Young World Summit brings together young talent from the private, public and NGO sectors with world leaders to debate today’s pressing issues, and share their solutions. Fiona, who grew up in poverty in rural Zimbabwe, and Chifundo Gloss, who grew up in poverty in rural Malawi, were among the first young women supported by Camfed through school and university in their respective countries. Camfed is an international non-profit organization that invests in the education of girls and empowerment of young women in rural Africa, and demonstrates through the leadership of its young women graduates what is possible when marginalized, excluded girls receive a quality education. “My participation at this conference will give me more practical insights into how I can enhance my leadership and help young women in the rural communities of my country to excel,” says Chifundo (http://www.oneyoungworld.com/ Fiona (http://www.oneyoungworld.com/ Watch Fiona Mavingha Address the Education Plenary Session Live on Saturday, 18 October 2014 5 PM – 7 PM (http://www.oneyoungworld.com/ ### About Camfed: Camfed, the Campaign for Female Education, fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to be leaders of change. Since 1993, more than three million children have benefited from Camfed’s innovative education programmes in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi. Camfed International in based in Cambridge, UK. For more information, please visit www.camfed.org. End
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