Delivering Girls’ Education at Scale: Camfed at the Skoll World Forum

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Lucy Lake, Camfed CEO
Lucy Lake, Camfed CEO
April 15, 2015 - PRLog -- This week in Oxford, Camfed CEO Lucy Lake joins social entrepreneurs from around the world at the Skoll World Forum (http://skollworldforum.org/) to share solutions to the world’s most profound problems. The sense of urgency has never been greater: 2015 is a seminal year, as the UN’s Millennium Development Goals make way for a new set of even more ambitious – but vital – Sustainable Development Goals, guiding action over the next 15 years. And absolutely key to eradicating global poverty, world leaders agree, is access to quality secondary education for girls.

On Friday, April 17th at 10 am (UK) Lucy Lake will join Graça Machel, Memory Banda, Rebecca Winthrop and Mabel van Oranje on a panel entitled Unleashing Girls’ Power (http://skollworldforum.org/session/skoll-world-forum-2015/sessions-2/unleashing-girls-power/). She will explain how Camfed’s partnership with communities and engagement with government around girls’ education is responding to the urgency of girls’ exclusion and transforming educational prospects for girls – at scale.

It was 22 years ago that Camfed first challenged conventional development ‘wisdom’ that culture lay behind the massive scale of girls’ exclusion from school, by demonstrating that if you tackle the root cause of poverty, if you give families the means to make a choice, then girls are in school alongside their brothers. Since then, Camfed’s programs have grown to support millions of girls through education, and on from school into secure livelihoods.

Proof of the success of Camfed’s approach is in the young women school graduates who have joined Camfed’s alumnae network, CAMA.  “This new force of activists and philanthropists – with a growing membership of more than 33,000 – is now joining local and national authorities to lead change for the younger generation of marginalized girls,” says Lucy. “They are bringing to the table their own experience of poverty, and the power of a pan African peer network, to define and deliver policies and programs that secure every child’s right to safe, quality education, and a life of independence. They are an unstoppable new force who are now changing things for future generations

Read Lucy’s Skoll World Forum blog:  Quality Secondary Education for Girls: How Do We Finance it at Scale? (http://skollworldforum.org/2015/03/24/quality-secondary-e...)

Watch the panel event live:  Skoll World Forum live stream (http://skollworldforum.org/live/).

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Note for editors:

Camfed Founder and President Ann Cotton, Skoll Award Social Entrepreneur and winner of the WISE Prize for Education 2014 will be joining Lucy Lake at the Skoll World Forum.  On Thursday, April 16th, between 5:30 and 7 PM BST (12:30 PM Eastern), Ann will be interviewing Graça Machel, renowned international advocate for women’s and children’s rights, at the Skoll Awards Ceremony (http://skollworldforum.org/session/skoll-world-forum-2015/skoll-awards-for-social-entrepreneurship-awards-ceremony/), as Ms. Machel receives the Global Treasure Award. This event will also be streamed live (http://skollworldforum.org/live/).

About Camfed
Camfed is an international non-profit organization tackling poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change.  Camfed invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage, and where their education has transformative potential.  Since 1993, Camfed’s innovative education programs have directly supported over 1.4 million students to go to school in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi.

Camfed CEO Lucy Lake, a founding member of the Global Advisory Committee of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), has led the development of Camfed's programs to become a recognized model of investment in girls' education through which its clients – as educated young women – take the reins of the program and join forces with local and national authorities to lead change for the younger generation of girls.

In 2014, Camfed was recognized by the OECD for best practice in taking development innovation to scale, and Camfed founder Ann Cotton was awarded the WISE Prize for Education Innovation.

For more information, please visit www.camfed.org

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