Campaign For Female Education (CAMFED)
Speakers
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Lydia Wilbard is Co-Director of Camfed Tanzania and Co-Founder of the Tanzania chapter of Cama, the pan-African network of educated young women supported by Camfed. Lydia has been central to Camfed Tanzania’s programme of support to 310,512 children and young women, and is a specialist in gender, education and health with a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. A leader and role model, Lydia grew up in rural Tanzania and has personally overcome the barriers to women’s empowerment.
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A lifelong educationalist, I began my career teaching English at secondary level before focusing on children excluded from mainstream education. Following research in Zimbabwe, I founded CAMFED International to support and advance the education of rural girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation has grown into six countries, working with Ministries of Education and an array of other partners to extend education beyond the secondary into the tertiary level as well as providing financial intelligence training and job creation programmes. CAMFED’s work is rooted in rural communities and credits its strength and success to the creative endeavours and resilience of these communities as well as the alumna of young women supported by CAMFED and now more that a quarter of a million strong.
