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In 1980, the government of Botswana wanted to build a university but it had no money for it. So, the government ran a campaign asking each person to contribute a cow, chicken and grains which were then sold. This is how the university was financed and built. They called it the “person and a cow” campaign. More

More funding for ‘women and girls’ is necessary but not sufficient. What philanthropy really needs is a feminist consciousness – a vision which places women’s rights front and centre, challenges political norms and economic orders, shifts power to the most marginalised and interrogates the social construction of gender. This revolutionary spirit runs through the contributions which inform the issue, guest edited by Dreilnden’s Ise Bosch and Urgent Action Fund’s, Ndana Bofu-Tawamba. More