 Identify a social entrepreneur you admire and explain why.

 Discuss a bit about their biography and background.

 What social, environmental, and/or economic issue did/does their work address?

 What drove this person to become a social entrepreneur?

 Identify a pivotal moment in their career that led to the accomplishment

 How has this person’s efforts impacted society?

Answers

According to our discussion we have chosen Ann Cotton, American social entrepreneur.

We admire her because she is one of the social entrepreneur which deal with eradication of
poverty in Africa through the provision of education to girls and empowerment of women by
financing payment of school fees to the African countries such as Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe,
Zambia and Malawi. She operate at non-profit oriented and also succeeded to assist 1065710
women from 1993-2010.

Also we have admired her work because is a strong woman social entrepreneurs who adhered to
deal with the assistance to children and youth, education, and women and succeeded.

She also implements her program in 1887 school in Africa countries.

The following are the biography and background of Ann Cotton

Ann Cotton is a American social entrepreneur who is a founder and president of a campaigns for
female education ( CAMFED) introduce in 1993.she is the best example of practicing in
empowerment of girls education. She advising national Government and international
organization, she is also advocacy of girls’ education and child protection she insured that girl’s
voice at the rural are heard at the highest level.

She made a research in sub-Saharan Africa such as Zimbabwe before establishing of a program.
She discovered that only 64% of the children completed primary school and less completed
secondary school the percentage in general is significant less for girls. In 2007 for example only
55% of girls completed primary school in Malawi this national figures mask the reality in rural
areas where access to education is lowest. Faced with few resources many families choose to
educate their son due to the perception that it presents better investment; daughters are sent
instead to work in cities or marry early.
d)Things that forces her to become a social entrepreneur; she inspired to change the future of
girls in rural Africa during a research trip in a remote village in 1991.what she discovered there
that girls exclusion from education was culturally based, profoundly change her view. She met
many parents who want their daughters in school but were able to do so due to poverty. Moved
by this experience, she founded CAMFED and as worked since to ensure that poor girls are
chance to go school.
e)The following are the impacts of CAMFED to the society which was drawn in January,2014

 Camfed works with 4,743 schools in the poorest areas of Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania,
Zambia and Zimbabwe. This has benefited 2,420,000 children.
 In Zambia, CAMFED’s child protection policy has been adopted by the Ministry of
Education as a national strategy.
 CAMFED’s power-sharing governance model is creating systemic change – partnering
with 5 Ministries of Education to ensure complementarity with national goals, and with a
25 percent increase in volunteer community activists since 2010. 289,000 are supported
by Camfed volunteers.
 A former Camfed bursary student in 2012 was appointed to a top-level panel which will
directly advise the UN Secretary General on global education policy. She is one of just
ten young people selected from around the world for the UN’s Youth Advocacy Group.
 The 19,550 members of CAMFED’s rapidly growing pan-African network of young
women, CAMFED Association (Cama), demonstrates the transformative effect that
educated women have on their communities. The network is expected to increase to
40,000 by 2015.
 Primary school–supported 596,089 children to attend; secondary school- Provided
bursary scholarships for 99,477 girls.
 Camfed financed 8,362 of girls’ enterprises.
 They have a 91% average retention rate (secondary school / 2010-2011) and 87% average
school attendance (girls supported with bursaries)
 1,887 additional schools implemented child protection strategies in partnership with
Camfed
 94% of pupils in the final grade of secondary school completed their secondary
education; there was a 22% increase in girls progressing into the highest levels of
secondary education (from 2010)