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Statement
on Day of the African Child
Campaign for
Female Education (CAMFED)
June
16, 2006
We join hands
with the world today, to commemorate "the day of the African
Child". The CAMFED (the Campaign for Female education)
supports the education and empowerment of girls as essential to
the creation of equitable societies and the realisation of the goal
of poverty eradication .In over 13 years of operation we have pioneered
strategies to tackle the range of constraints on girls education
and personal development, including the social and health challenges
presented by HIV/AIDS, inability of parents to meet the education
costs of their children and last but not least child abuse.
We strongly
believe as an organisation that the answer to community problems
lie in the communities themselves. We also understand the financial
and expertise resources that are often lacking for them to be able
to adequately and efficiently respond to the socio-economic challenges
prevalent. "Talk and marches alone does not mean a poor
peasant farmer woman in Nyaminyami now has the hard cash to keep
her dear child in school" An integrated and holistic
approach which encourages programmes to complement each other towards
meeting the needs of the child is crucial. A national coalition
of stakeholders genuinely concerned with the lives of the affected
and not in competing for the scarce resources is called for. This
should be our gift to the Zimbabwe child today!
We believe in
and envision a day when every African child will be in school, safe
and secure. When the girl child will cease to take up adult responsibilities
prematurely. When children stop being used as pawns in adult games
of greed and spite! When the AIDS pandemic will stop feeding on
the people we love and leave children struggling with ruined social
support structures. This world is possible and the challenge is
ours to fight for it or to surrender and let fate determine our
destiny!
THANK YOU for
what you have done, are doing and will do, today and beyond it!!
Visit the CAMFED
fact sheet
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