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Annual Review 2024

CAMFED is one of Africa's leading girls' education charities, supporting marginalised girls across Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe through school bursaries, peer mentorship and a powerful graduate network. Their 2024 Annual Review covers 738,673 girls newly supported, a CAMFED Association of 312,747 young women leaders whose own philanthropy reached 1.1 million children, and 21,000+ Learner Guides supporting nearly 2 million children. With $108.3m in income and government partners now integrating CAMFED's models into national education systems, the organisation is scaling towards its goal of 8 million girls supported by 2030.

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Personalised bursary packages (school fees, uniforms, menstrual products, transport), Learner Guide peer mentorship, My Better World life skills programme, CAMFED Association livelihoods and leadership network, Agriculture Guide programme, government partnership and systems integration, research and evaluation

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 738,673 girls newly supported in 2024; 3.2 million girls supported to date towards 10-year goal of 8 million by 2030
Key Metric 2 312,747 CAMFED Association members; 1.1 million children and young people supported through their own philanthropy — largest number in a single year
Key Metric 3 21,000+ Learner Guides supporting nearly 2 million children; $108.3m total income; $81.6m expenditure

Key Outcomes

  • Agriculture Guide programme expanded to Ghana and Tanzania — 2,000+ female champions of sustainable agriculture active across 5 countries; 20,000+ agripreneurs reached with climate-resilient techniques
  • Over 30% of schools with active Learner Guides now part of government-partnered roll-out; 37% of CAMFED Association members in leadership roles in education systems or wider community
  • CEO Angeline Murimirwa — CAMFED Association founding member — awarded Africa Education Medal October 2024; 60%+ more children reached by Learner Guides than in 2023

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
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91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
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Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni