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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Campaign Community Day Each Each Day Education Exclusion Fed Female Founded Generosity Girl Hours Inspired Large Large Part Me Organization Part People Research Shown Talked Village Visit Walked Zimbabwe

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Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Active Bringing Care Demonstrating Example Financial Graduates Health Health Care Improve Information Literacy Lives Many Marginalized Philanthropy Possible Power Resources Rural Skills Teaching Through Using Villages Vital Women

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There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Children Constant Education Escape Expected Exploring Grow Growing How Learning Life Meant Million Myriad Other School Struggle Trapped Ways Were While Who Without

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I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

~Ann Cotton

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When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Communities Complete Continue Doing First Learn Learned More More And More Most Novice Study Through Village Where Worked Years Zimbabwe I Have Learned

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Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.

~Ann Cotton

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The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Because Better Better Chance Boy Chance Children Education Everyone Families Future Getting Girl Had Local Me Outside Paid Parents Prevailing Resistance School View Village Visited Were Work

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The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Also Back Because Between Bridge Change Communities Economics Education Exclusion Families Girl Holding Issue Justice Modern Modern World Nations Often Powerful Traditional Very World

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You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

~Ann Cotton

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If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.

~Ann Cotton

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Businesswoman

Born: Unknown

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