Overcoming gender inequality and poverty, one camera at a time.
Cameras For Girls Is Different Because it Leads to Job Creation For African Women.
In the short term, creating meaningful employment opportunities is crucial to helping women escape poverty. But in the long term, helping young women launch careers in Africa’s traditionally male-dominated media will lead to societal change and gender equality. Economic empowerment is at the heart of Cameras for Girls’ mission and values. By emphasizing job creation, we help women across Africa become financially independent and seed deep and lasting change.
How Do We Do It?
Cameras For Girls uses photography as the catalyst for gender equality in Africa.
Our approach is simple and powerful: We equip women with cameras to keep and train them in photography, storytelling, and business skills.
The result: Our graduates are breaking gender barriers, pursuing careers as journalists and photographers in what has been until now, male-dominated spaces.
Our students don't just learn to capture the world—they seize it with newfound confidence. Our program opens new career options for African women, helps reduce gender inequality, and combats poverty.
Our Impact To Date
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79
64 girls taught In Uganda
15 girls taught in Tanzania
via our 4-phase year-long program
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206
girls taught through
our online platform
via various collaborative partners
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75%
of students in Uganda
found paid work in media
with their new skills