Giving Girls a Real Start
Post originally written by Reeta Roy and published on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion Blog. When I was in Dakar, Senegal a year ago, I met several teenage girls. They were confident and energetic. I loved Fatimah’s clothes. Bright bold …
Cheraponi District, Ghana
This school has 126 Camfed-supported girls and in Chereponi district alone Camfed is supporting 482 girls through their education bursary program. Before Camfed’s involvement, this school suffered from overall low enrollment rates and was facing foreclosure. Its female-to-male student ratio …
Tamale, Ghana
One of the first girls school built in the district by Camfed in the 90’s, this school has blossomed into a state-of-the-art facility in Ghana. Girls in the region covet the opportunity to go here. The community PTA equipped the …
Tamale, Ghana
Meredith Lee and Alpha Abebe, Program Manager and Associate Program Manager, Youth Learning (respectively), are currently visiting Ghana, doing due diligence with prospective partners. Follow their posts. Along the road to the Tamale Girls Secondary School a few trees rise …
