BSTappeal🌈​​ are going GREEN for CAMFED! 

Last year, thanks to friends, family and colleagues, we supported 80 girls from marginalised backgrounds in rural Africa to go to school (see here). But girls' ambition does not stop here...! 

We are looking to raise £3,000 to support 24 young women on the next stage of their journey, as they transition out of education and launch their own businesses using climate-adaptive technologies. Through CAMFED's Climate Smart Agri-Guide Program, just £125 can support a woman to set up her own sustainable agricultural business. 

Help us build a more sustainable future for girls and young women in Africa!

What's YOUR Climate Change Commitment?! 

To help raise funds we have made Climate Change Commitments. Please sponsor us and make your own Climate Change Commitment, any contribution would be fantastic!

Who are CAMFED? See here

What impact is climate change having on women in rural Africa? See here

CAMFED's Climate Smart Agricultural Guide Program!  

Since 2014, CAMFED and the young women leaders in the CAMFED Association of graduates have been taking action on climate change in rural Africa. CAMFED’s Climate-Smart Agri-Guide Program provides all-round support to help young women from marginalised farming communities to launch their own sustainable agricultural businesses. Through this training, young women learn how to improve the productivity, sustainability and profitability of their own smallholdings. They also become Agriculture Guides - champions of sustainable agriculture, and encourage wide adoption of affordable and locally-relevant climate-smart techniques, helping to build communities' resilience in the face of climate change. These include affordable methods of irrigation, crop-rotation, inter-cropping, agroforestry, organic composting and mulching. Approaches such as these make effective use of scarce water resources, reduce surface water evaporation, improve soil nutrition and its ability to store carbon and increase productivity by enabling multiple harvests on a single plot.

Agricultural Guides are ploughing the benefits of their education back into their communities, using their own resources to support more girls to go to school and thrive. They invite other CAMFED Association members and school-children to learn on their farms and share expertise at community meetings and with parent groups, including Mother Support Groups who cultivate food for school meals. Already, over 8,500 individuals, mostly young women, have been reached through demo-farms, community meetings and mentoring, and Agri-Guides are continuing to reach young people in their communities to build their resilience to climate challenges. Help us equip more young women in rural Africa with climate knowledge and skills. 

This is an example of a scalable, effective climate solution, that's led by young women. 

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

CAMFED Girls Education: 

CAMFED UK – Education changes everything brochure 2019

CAMFED in numbers

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

Meet some of the young women in Zimbabwe driving change with climate-adaptive farming methods Beauty, Esnath, Clarah. More inspirational stories.