Ms. Angeline Murimirwa, one of the first young women supported by the Campagin for Femaled Education (CAMFED) to go to secondary school in Zimbabwe, understands from first-hand experience the hurdles girls face in accessing education. She is a founding member and the first elected Chair of the CAMFED Association— the pan-African network of 157,000 women leaders educated with CAMFED support, and united in their determination to secure every girl's right to quality education.

Ms. Murimirwa is now CAMFED Executive Director–Africa, uniquely positioned to bring the expertise of young women once excluded from education to inform policy and strategy at every level.

Ms. Murimirwa represents CAMFED on the Zimbabwe Education Coordination Group. She has served on the Board of the Zimbabwe National Youth Council and on the UNAIDS Gender Task Force.

In 2006, she was awarded the Prize for Women's Creativity by the Women's World Summit Foundation and in 2017, she was presented with the Diamond Ball Honours Award by Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation. Ms Murimirwa has been recognised as one of 100 most influential women by the BBC, in tribute to her role in supporting young women to step forward as leaders to drive support for girls' education.

Speaking:

October 19th, 12:45 AM – 1:15 PM: 
Education at the Last Mile: Ensuring Access to Maximize Potential 

Education has long been strongly associated with health outcomes. While the pandemic has created much anxiety in Western countries around children missing out on education, this is a story that many in the Global South know well. In the top 10 countries with the highest rates of children out of primary education, nearly two in every five children – 18 million - are out of school, according to UNICEF. With only less than four percent of humanitarian aid going to education, how does philanthropy support education access and in turn foster better health outcomes?

While serving as US special coordinator for the Post-2015 Agenda at the Department of State, Tony Pipa led the US delegation at the United Nations to negotiate and adopt the SDGs. He now works with city leaders to incorporate the SDGs into their agendas. He joins us to talk about this work and how it is helping to advance a culture of health in the US and around the world.

SPEAKERS

Alice Albright, CEO of Global Partnership for Education
Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director - Africa, CAMFED, Hilton Humanitarian Prize Winner