- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Camfed, we have focused on transforming the vicious cycle of poverty in many rural African communities into a cycle of opportunity. Alumnae of Camfed's programs go on to become role models and mentors for future generations of young students. We call this the 'virtuous circle,' and we know this is a model that works.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.
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- Nov 07, 2020