CAMA - Camfed Alumni Network
Published May 08, 2009 @ 01:07PM PT
We have set out to prove to the world that we are resourceful individuals able to act on ideas and provide solutions grounded in the realities of the life we lived. We are along this road together.
When we left school we did not run away from our communities. We are sharing with them the benefits of our education. We are working tirelessly for those who never went to school - helping them to build their lives and their confidence. Many of us are providing our local communities with goods and services through the businesses we have set up. Some have gained places at university pursuing law, medicine, political administration and business studies. Yet others are employed as doctors, auditors, teachers and nurses.
We have acquired freedom in every sphere of life - economic freedom through professions and enterprise, and reproductive freedom in deciding when to marry, who to marry and when to have a child.
We are so proud that we have achieved all this. This is the message that we bring to you so that you may understand the potential in a rural girl who, when given a chance, can do wonders for her family and community. With all this evidence, who then can argue against her education?
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