CAMFED is a pan-African movement, revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered. Through a gold-standard system of accountability to the young people and communities they serve, they have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women. Their impact increases exponentially through the Association of young women educated with CAMFED’s support. Together, they multiply the number of girls in school and accelerate their transition to secure livelihoods and leadership.

Through the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their countries face — from child marriage and girls’ exclusion from education to climate change. This unique pan-African Sisterhood of teachers, nurses, doctors, sustainable agriculture experts, and entrepreneurs now numbers nearly 313,000, and is growing every year as more girls complete school and join them.

Their collective efforts have already supported more than 7.8 million children to go to school across Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and millions more students have benefited from an improved educational environment across their partner schools.

CAMFED’s recent global awards include the 2019 UN Climate Action Award, the 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development, the 2021 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and the 2023 Al-Sumait Prize for African Development. In 2023, CAMFED was selected by The Audacious Project, housed at TED, as one of the biggest, boldest solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges. CAMFED was honored by New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof with the 2020 and 2023 Holiday Impact Prize and is a New York Times Communities Fund beneficiary.

CAMFED’s CEO, Angeline Murimirwa, was honored with the 2024 Africa Education Medal and made the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2025.