Angeline Murimirwa, one of the first young women to receive support from the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) to go to secondary school in Zimbabwe, today leads female education and empowerment programmes across more than 5,700 marginalised school communities in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, unlocking the potential of hundreds of thousands of girls and young women across sub-Saharan Africa.
Angeline is a key founding member of the Camfed Association, CAMA, a powerful pan-African movement of 120,000 educated young women. United by a background of rural poverty, CAMA members understand the desire for education, and the enormous hurdles girls face in securing that right. CAMA provides a crucial support network, enabling young women to step up as role models, mentors and entrepreneurs in their communities, armed, as Angeline puts it, with ‘the audacity to dream, to question, and to lead.”
Angeline, a serving member of the Girls’ Education Alliance, also served on the Board of the Zimbabwe National Youth Council, and represented Camfed on the Education Coordination Group and the UNAIDS Gender Task Force. She was awarded Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life by the Women's World Summit Foundation in Switzerland presented with the 2017 Diamond Ball Honors Award by the Clara Lionel Foundation, recognising her past, present and future support of young leaders, entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Her international platforms include the Brookings Center for Universal Education in Washington, D.C., and the Skoll World Forum. Angeline’s story features in ‘Half the Sky’, a book by award-winning writers Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn.
