On behalf of Camfed
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The Financial Times is lending its support to Camfed, an international charity dedicated to fighting poverty and Aids in rural communities in Africa by educating girls
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Goldman in $100m drive to educate women
The philanthropic effort, one of the largest in the Wall Street investment bank’s history, aims to provide women in the developing world with business and management education
An education in itself
Lionel Barber on a successful FT seasonal appeal: I want to thank FT readers warmly for the extremely generous response to our seasonal appeal on behalf of Camfed International, which has raised the remarkable total of £1,638,963.
Audio slideshows: Camfed in Tanzania
Our series of five audio slideshows highlighting the work of Camfed in Tanzania feature girls and women at different stages of life, from schoolgirls escaping prejudice and domestic drudgery, to young women starting their own businesses
Camfed ready to widen its work
Camfed International, the educational charity that was the subject of the FT's -Seasonal Appeal, is to start work this year in Malawi, its fifth African country,...
FT readers help raise £1.1m for Camfed
The Financial Times' seasonal appeal on behalf of Camfed International, which supports poor girls' education in rural Africa, has raised more than £1.1m in its first four weeks
A gift of learning can transform lives
Naja's mud-brick house is 100 feet from the main highway that bisects Tanzania. Her front window has been filled with cardboard bearing the words Bridge Hair Tonic. In...
Choices, conundrums and African rural realities
At the Tanzanian office of Camfed International, they are used to turning down bizarre applications for loans. But Lydia Wilbard, programme officer for the educational...
Camfed motorcycle rides to aid of girls' schooling
In regions where mobile phones are scarce, computers more so and distances enormous, an older form of technology - the motorcycle - is a vital tool in Camfed...
'I can face anything because I have got help in my life'
The poet William Blake once wrote of seeing "a world in a grain of sand". Mary is doing something similar as she contemplates a small area of earth, less than a metre...
Drama used to fight poverty of expectation
Camfed has used the performing arts to pass on development messages in rural Tanzania, where a low literacy rate curbs the effectiveness of the written word
