Campaign for Female Education

When you educate a girl in Africa, everything changes. She’ll be three times less likely to get HIV/AIDS, earn 25 percent more income and have a smaller, healthier family (Camfed.org).

Education of girls is undoubtedly the most important and influential means to end poverty. The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed, 2010) is one courageous organization making a difference for thousands of young girls. CamFed (2010) states education can change everything. In sub-Saharan Africa, 24 million girls can't afford to go to school. A girl may marry as young as 13 and has a one in 22 chance of dying in childbirth. One in six of her children will die before the age of five.

Since 1993, Camfed has fought poverty and AIDS by educating girls and empowering young women. Camfed uses a community-based, holistic approach to bring about change in Africa. The girls supported are selected by the community as being the most in need. Camfed is not just about supplying books and uniforms. The organization helps young girls through out their development and into adulthood.

Please pass the word, check out their website (www.camfed.org), and continue to support Save a Girl, Change the World.

Reference
Campaign for Female Education (2010). Camfed: What we do. Retrieved on April 11, 2010 from http://us.camfed.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home_index&cvridirect=true