Camfed wields numbers to evaluate educational hurdles, pull in partners, and maximize its success. When it started in 1993, the Campaign for Female Education— Camfed , for short—helped 32 girls go to school in rural Zimbabwe. Last year , the organization directly supported 538,782 students across Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Of those students, nearly 50,000 used the organization's safety net fund to purchase school supplies such as school uniforms, shoes, and stationery, and another 113,000 students received scholarships to help defray the costs of secondary schooling. In speaking with Brooke Hutchinson, director of Camfed USA, I learned that the organization's exponential expansion can be credited to close cooperation with a host of different partners—public and private international organizations, state ministries of education, school and district-level commi...
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