Ann Cotton - Window To the World Award 2008

This award salutes a woman whose courage and determination has brought to our attention the educational deprivation of young women in Zimbabwe. On visiting Western Zimbabwe in 1991 she discovered that the lack of financial resources was a major barrier to girls over 12 attending school. She was so incensed by the waste of such talent that on her return to Britain she created CAMFED the Campaign for Female Education first raising funds by baking cakes and selling them in a local market. Fourteen years later she had created a three million pound charity with educational programmes across the sub-Saharan Africa which now reaches four hundred and twenty seven youngsters across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania.

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