Ann Cotton, Born 1950
FOUNDER OF THE CAMFED CHARITY
Ann Lesley Cotton OBE is a Welsh entrepreneur and philanthropist. She is the founder of Camfed, a charity which works to improve education of young women in rural Africa. Camfed's goal is to replace the existing cycle of poverty and inequality with a new cycle of empowerment and opportunity. The organisation's unique approach is to not only support girls and young women through school, but also on to new lives as entrepreneurs and community leaders. Over the past 17 years, over a million young people directly benefited from Camfed’s programmes in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. More than 3 million children have benefited from Camfed's programmes in a network of 5,085 partner schools.