Announcing our FY25 NET partner!
We are delighted to welcome CAMFED – Campaign for Female Education as our newest Navitas Education Trust (NET) partner.
For the past 10 years, the NET has provided support to charitable organisations performing incredible work, bringing education to communities around the world. Each year, we select a new round of partners to support new and innovative education projects.
This year we welcome a returning partner to the NET community! We are delighted to partner once again with CAMFED – Campaign for Female Education, supporting their innovative and far-reaching Learner Guide Program in regional areas of Zambia.
Hear what CAMFED has to say about their Learner Guide program
“The Learner Guide Program is CAMFED’s flagship program, and is central to scaling the impact of girls’ education and women’s leadership across Africa. It sees young women in the CAMFED Association—once themselves supported by CAMFED—return to their local school as mentors and role models.
Trained in delivering self-development, life and learning skills, as well as vital sexual and reproductive health information and psycho-social support, our young leaders work with schools, communities and district governments to keep vulnerable children in school, and help them overcome their challenges.
Beyond the classroom, Learner Guides create an important home-school link, following up with children who drop out of school and working with communities to keep vulnerable girls safe from exploitation, including early pregnancy and early marriage.
In return for volunteering, Learner Guides can access low-risk interest free loans and additional training to start or grow local businesses. And they can achieve vocational qualifications that can help fast-track them into further education and employment – as a new generation of much-needed rural teachers, for example.”
The Learner Guide program has helped many young woman transform their lives through education and invest in their own futures, and the futures of their communities. Take a look at Chise’s story to read about her beginnings as CAMFED-supported student and her current farming business and climate activism.
Karen Jones, Manager, Philanthropic Partnerships at CAMFED says: “Our partnership is a wonderful example of what can be achieved when forward-thinking organisations come together around one goal. For two years, it has already resulted in remarkable improvements in educational outcomes for the most marginalised girls in rural Zambia, and we are thrilled to continue in this partnership. By investing in the power of education and women’s leadership, together, we will increase access to education for future generations of children and strengthen communities across rural Africa.”
In FY25, the NET continues to support Classroom of Hope, Vietnam Foundation, KOTO, and Indigo Foundation.