Overcoming gender inequality and poverty, one camera at a time.
Our Mission
Cameras can do more than you think.
They can empower a woman in Africa.
Cameras For Girls pursues Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa using photography as our catalyst. We provide women who face gender-based barriers to employment with a camera to keep and a 4-phase photography, storytelling, and business-skills curriculum to support their goals of becoming paid journalists and photographers in male-dominated spaces.
Our students learn to capture their world with their new cameras, giving young women the confidence to work with recognized skills that immediately improve their options, reduce gender inequality and fight poverty.
Join our mission to empower women and girls in Uganda and, soon, across Africa through photography.
Meet the Inspiration Behind
Cameras For Girls
“I believe that by giving back, we make the world a better place.”
Amina Mohamed is the founder and lead photographer for Cameras For Girls. Having come to Canada in 1972 as a refugee from Uganda, she founded Cameras For Girls to address the challenges young girls and women across Africa face in attaining work in the journalism and photography sectors, which are typically male-dominated.
See the various places Cameras For Girls and Amina Mohamed have been featured, including their CTV News Feature HERE.
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79
64 girls taught In Uganda
15 girls taught in Tanzania
via our in-person workshops and online
training platform.
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206
girls taught through
our online platform
via various collaborative partners
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74%
students in Uganda who
found paid work in media
with their new skills
Our Program
Our students are recruited from Journalism and Communications program through university partners across Africa. Our 4-phase program has proved successful, with 75% of our students from our Uganda training having attained full-time jobs in journalism, communications, and photography.
We have expanded our program to Tanzania in 2023, using the practical approach we use in Uganda. We look forward to further expansion to Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa in the coming years.
Why Your Donation Matters
Many of our students come from a university-based journalism program; however, because it is theoretical and not practical, they lack the skills to get paid work in journalism and communications.
They must own a camera and know how to use it to get paid work as journalists - a requirement not placed on males, thereby increasing gender inequality.
Your generous donation allows us to supply each student with a camera to keep and the necessary skills and support to help her learn, build her confidence, and build her career in journalism.
Cameras for Girls is committed to these United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
