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 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.

To date, we have operated solely in Uganda and taught 64 young women the art of photography to empower them to reach their goals of finding paid work in the journalism and photography industries. 72% of our students now have paid work, have escaped the clutches of poverty, are supporting their families, and are paying it forward to support other girl's dreams of doing the same.