CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) is a multi-award winning, international non-profit organization with a mission to multiply educational opportunities for girls and empower young women to step up as leaders in sub-Saharan Africa.

Through our peer support and leadership network, the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their communities face – from girls’ exclusion to climate change. This unique pan-African network of teachers, nurses, doctors, sustainable agriculture experts and entrepreneurs numbers is growing every year as more girls complete school and join them. Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times, described CAMFED’s model as ‘a perpetual motion machine… a virtuous cycle that grows over time.’

Join us and together with our CAMFED Association, trustees and partners, you can catalyze the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine — for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa.

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CAMFED’s programs tackle poverty and inequality by providing the financial and social support girls need to learn, thrive and lead. We see girls’ education as the route to systems change, not to mitigation of systems that keep failing the most marginalized. 

We begin with an individual girl in rural Africa.

We’re answerable first and foremost to her. By looking at the world from her perspective, we work to dismantle the financial, structural and systemic barriers to her education and to living a healthy and fulfilling adult life as an independent, influential woman. 

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CAMFED offers internship placements to students or post-graduates who are planning a career in development. 

Interns provide support to CAMFED staff across a range of disciplines—from fundraising to enterprise and leadership, and from monitoring and evaluation to program activities. This breadth of exposure will allow interns to gain wide-ranging experience in the development sector.

All intern positions will be advertised separately by the relevant CAMFED office and only recruited at a national level.

In the UK, internships are offered for an initial 3-month period, with a possible extension to 6 months. This will be paid at the National Living Wage, with five days of paid holiday. Ideally, interns will be able to work for CAMFED on a full-time basis.

Previous interns have been offered permanent positions within CAMFED or have gone on to gain employment in other charities as a result of their experience.

If you are interested in being considered for a placement within CAMFED when the opportunity arises, please send your CV and letter of application to recruitment@camfed.org

We work in a context where families struggling to provide regular meals simply can’t afford to send their girls to school, so CAMFED provides targeted financial support to cover a wide range of school-going costs.

These include the required school uniform and shoes, fees, books, and school supplies, as well as items that address the additional hurdles girls face, including menstrual products and bicycles or boarding fees, ensuring that girls can travel long distances more safely, or board directly at schools far away from their villages. 

We also support schools with grants for infrastructure, and community groups with grants to establish local enterprises, whose profits in turn fund the education of more children in their communities.

Across our countries of operation there is a lack of highly qualified (especially female) teachers, and of learning materials.

Teaching is often in English, not in students’ home languages, and without access to resources and support, children find it very hard to acquire the literacy and language skills required to learn and pass their exams. We started addressing these issues through trained Teacher Mentors, who work across government partner schools, identifying new ways of helping girls to pass their exams in a context where many students fail.