WISE Prize for Education Laureate Ann Cotton - 2014 WISE [Special Address]

Ann Cotton, Founder and President of Camfed, is the 2014 WISE Prize for Education laureate. During a special address at WISE 2014, Ms. Cotton took the audience on a journey through a girl’s life in rural Africa that has no chances of escaping poverty for us to see what it means to be excluded from education and the chances of leading a better life. Poverty left little choice for communities to improve the situation. This is where Ann Cotton’s initiative Camfed started: partnering with poor families and “tra