Camfed is dedicated to fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic indepen- dence and leadership once they complete school.
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- Founded:
- 1993
Causes
Educate Girls in Africa. Fight Poverty and HIV.
462,358 members
$140,964 donated
$140,964 donated
- 64 recruited
- $10 raised
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Leading up to World AIDS Day next week, Dec. 1, we'll be sharing facts
& stories about AIDS and suggesting ways to get involved through our Twitter account. Are you following? http://twitter.com/camfed
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Camfed works to break the cycle of poverty and disease in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in economic and leadership opportunities for young women
Camfed Vote for CAMFED as one of your favorite charities in the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook: http://ow.ly/Ddel Chase is giving $5,000,000 to charities of your choice!
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Camfed It's International Education Week! Educated women are less likely to be HIV+ or to live in poverty.
Camfed In Africa, young age at marriage is directly related to low income http://ow.ly/zBnJ
Camfed NY Times Mag's reader-submitted photos from around the world illustrate the importance of educating girls http://ow.ly/yY3V
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Readers submitted photographs that illustrate the theme of women's empowerment.
Camfed Read the review! Zambian women share their story through filmmaking in a Camfed documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. http://ow.ly/xlqW
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Media for Global Development — MediaGlobal — offers the world's most vulnerable countries strategic communications advice and helps them brand their country's image globally.
Camfed Team Camfed is running the NYC Marathon this Sunday for girls' education. Meet & support the runners! They have raised over $33,500! http://ow.ly/xpps
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"My parents are New Yorkers and I have lived there sporadically and visited often throughout my life. It is a beautiful, ugly, maddening, wonderful city and the thought of running the marathon through ...
Camfed Study finds expanding aid & education for women essential to reducing hunger in impoverished regions in Africa http://ow.ly/vtON
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Expanding aid and education for women is essential to reducing hunger in the world’s most impoverished regions, according to the [bn:URL=http://www.ifpri.org/] International Food Policy Research Institute [].
Camfed A 1% rise in girls attending school boosts a country's annual per capita income growth by .3% http://ow.ly/vxey
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Sending more girls to school may help poor countries get out of the economic slump faster, the NGO Plan International says in a new report. Just a one percent rise in the number of girls attending secondary school boosts a country's annual per capita income growth by 0.3 percent.
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We are hosting a fundraiser for Camfed's 25-member team running the NYC Marathon, hosted by The Whisk & Ladle, a very popular supper club who has a member on Camfed's team.
The benefit dinner is only $100 per person, and 100% of these proceeds will be donated to Camfed in order to support this year's marathon runners wh...o are fundraising to help educate and empower young women in Africa.
The evening's menu will feature poultry stocks and beef with optional vegetarian courses.
This is how the reservation process works:
After submitting the form below, you will receive an email invitation with a reservation date for you to confirm.
Five courses, as well as unlimited cocktails, wine and beer are covered by the cost of your contribution. Dinner begins at 8:15pm and dessert is served around 10:30.
Thank you for your interest in Whisk & Ladle. Please take care in filling out the form below:
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1. Guest(s) Attending:
2. Phone, Email, and Address of All Guests:
3. Please place a "Y" next to any of the following, if applicable. We can accommodate any preferences.
Vegan:
Vegetarian:
Pescatarian:
No Dairy:
No Nuts:
No Fish:
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To Contact Us:
rsvp@thewhiskandladle.com
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Time:8:00PM Saturday, October 24th
Location:260 water st., #4d (between bridge st. and gold st.) off the York street stop on the F
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Meet Ng’andwe, a Camfed leadership student in Zambia. (VIDEO CLIP)
This is the story of 18-year-old Ng’andwe, one of 150 young women who attended Camfed’s Leadership and Enterprise Training Programme in rural Zambia. She is now a role model in her community and she hopes to go on to study law because very few women in A...frica are lawyers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBa7GlNJ
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In this short film from Camfed, you'll hear the story of 18-year-old Ng'andwe, one of 150 young women who attended Camfed's Leadership and Enterprise Training Programme in rural Zambia.
See MoreFrom Dorset to Dubai, nearly 12,000 Girlguiding UK members aged between five and twenty-five have united to send thousands of girls to school in some of the poorest communities of Africa...
Camfed is one of a handful of organizations working in clever and new ways with men to secure power for girls and women. Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/winning-over-the-men/
Penelope Machipi, now the manager of an IT center in rural Zambia where she is introducing young people to computer skills, reflects on the opportunities that were unlocked for her through her education. Watch a video interview with Penelope: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8302294.stm
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Meet Yacinta, a Camfed student from Tanzania. (VIDEO CLIP)
She had to drop out when she was 13 and leave her family because she could not afford to pay for school fees. She became a domestic servant in another town. For a year and a half, she worked 18 hours each day and was paid $13 a month. She longed to attend high... school and study administration.
Her life changed when Camfed began to sponsor her to go to back to school. Yacinta hopes to get a good job so that she can afford to send her brothers and sisters to school as well.
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In this short film from Camfed, we tell the story of Yactina, who dropped out of school and left her family at age 13 so she that could work as domestic servant. Her hope: to earn enough money to pay her own school fees. ...
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