Hannah Bennett
BSTappeal CAMFED Champions!
Fundraising for CAMFED
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BSTappeal🌈
When we launched the BSTappeal🌈 in June, we never thought we would end the year raising an amazing £10,000 for CAMFED, but thanks to you we’ve done it! We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part either by nominating or fundraising, you have demonstrated amazing team spirit and determination to raise funds to support over 80 girls in Malawi to go to secondary school.
It's not too late to donate! Help us build a safer, more equal world for generations to come. Just £120 can help to shield a vulnerable girl and cover her school costs for a year.
Who are CAMFED?
CAMFED, Campaign For Education, is a charity that supports vulnerable girls through their education and empowers young women to become leaders of change. Their focus is on rural areas of Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe where girls and young women face acute disadvantage and where their empowerment will have a transformative impact.
Why Malawi?
CAMFED Malawi was launched in 2009. Malawi suffers from a critical lack of secondary schools so children often have to travel long distances to get to their places of education. This makes them extremely vulnerable to exploitation and school drop out. There's also a severe lack of qualified teachers, with an average child to teacher ratio of 72 to 1. With very few female teachers, those able to get to school lack the role models to help encourage them to stay. Malawi also has the 12th highest child marriage prevalence rate in the world; 42% of girls are married before the age of 18. Over 9% of the adult population are living with HIV and 20% of Malawian households, many headed by women and girls, are looking after orphans and vulnerable children.
Girls’ education has been described as the “silver bullet” in terms of what it can achieve to address child and maternal mortality, raise families out of poverty, accelerate economic development and help communities deal with climate change. CAMFED Malawi and the young women leaders in the CAMFED Association of graduates are now at the forefront of tackling child marriage, working with schools, parents, education authorities, social workers and the police to catalyse action for marginalised girls.
This report summarises how the charity has been working to ensure that marginalised girls have the support they need through the pandemic:
THIS IS THE TIME FOR EDUCATION AND ACTION.
See our latest campaign for GENDER-SMART CLIMATE ACTION!
CAMFED Girls Education:
CAMFED UK – Education changes everything brochure 2019
CAMFED Safeguarding:
CAMFED – Girls and young women at the front line of Covid-19
CAMFED – Child Protection and Safeguarding
CAMFED - Safeguarding girls and their rights during a time of crisis
CAMFED Global Climate Action:
CAMFED – Growing new opportunities through women-led climate-smart businesses
CAMFED wins UN Global Climate Action Award
CAMFED – Young Women’s Grassroots Action on Climate Change