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CAMFED IMPACT REPORT
CHAPTER TWO
Child protection at the center of
educational access and quality
Camfed puts the welfare and safety of children at its
center as a non-negotiable tenet of children’s entitlement
to educational access and quality. Camfed is an
international leader in child protection. It introduces child
protection policies and practices to all partner schools
and works concertedly with national governments and
policymakers, local communities, teachers, parents and
others, to make schools secure places where girls can
succeed. Its secondary school scholarship program is a
model for the development sector.
Material support is provided for girls’ schooling in a
context where substantial groundwork is first undertaken
to educate schools and communities on child protection,
and where psychosocial support structures are put into
place to make historically male-oriented schools more girlfriendly.
These measures are supported by policy work at
the highest level and by grassroots advocacy.
Camfed prevents poverty from being a barrier to girls’
education and improves their learning environment by:
• training female teachers to provide psychosocial support
for girls; Camfed has trained 4,068 teacher mentors in its
3,139 partner schools;
• providing long-term, comprehensive support to groups of
girls at secondary school. Camfed provides each girl with a
comprehensive scholarship package for four or five years.
42,184 girls have received secondary-school scholarships;
• providing Safety Net Funding to keep vulnerable
children in school when their families cannot afford
basic necessities such as uniforms, shoes and stationery.
To date 333,881 children have benefited from the
block grants Camfed makes available to schools for this
purpose;
• conducting workshops and role training on child
protection in schools and teacher training institutions;
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