Me speaking at a 2016 Girls’ Education Symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where we leaders of Camfed’s pan-African CAMA alumnae network met to define our five-year strategy for supporting more marginalized girls to go to school, and their transition to productive livelihoods after school.

Five strategies to achieve the 2030 education goals

By ALICE SAISHA, Camfed Zambia alumna and United Nation Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) Youth Representative

Madame Victoria, a teacher I support to look after the needs of some of the most marginalized girls in rural Zambia, always says: “How can we find a solution to a problem we haven’t personally encountered?” She knows that youths who have lived poverty have a nuanced understanding of the problems that marginalized communities face. We are role models with a vision of a better future. That future starts with education.

I had to drop out of school because of poverty. But thanks to the support I received to return and complete my education, I now work to give more girls that chance. In my experience, there are five strategies we need to deploy to deliver on the promise of quality secondary education for all by 2030…

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