'When you educate a girl, everything changes': CAMFED CEO Angeline Murimirwa
Africa • Dec 17, 2025, 1:41 PM
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The CEO of a huge organisation that has helped millions of girls across a series of African countries has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how the group she now runs helped her when she was a girl. Angeline Murimirwa was able to continue her education thanks to CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education. It has now been running now for over 30 years, reaching over 8 million children throughout Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya. We spoke to her in Perspective.
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