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What has BRIGHT Association achieved since 2020?

2021-2022

  • 100 children directly reached through education, digital learning, photography, tennis, peace education and community engagement.
  • All ten scholarship recipients who sat the Ordinary Level examination passed, in August 2022.
  • 20 young people graduated from photography training with Lens On Life.

2023-2024

  • Places in structured programmes (tennis, photography, entrepreneurship, English tests) more than doubled, from 40 in 2023 to 87 in 2024.
  • The Lens on Life Bright Lab opened on 28 March 2024 with more than 60 photographs, seen by 200 visitors and covered by CRTV.
  • Three Canon MIRAISHA scholarships, in October 2024.
  • 15 refugee women and girls certified in entrepreneurship (Empower Her Through Innovation, July 2024).
  • 15 students sat the Duolingo English Test on scholarship.
  • 500,000 FCFA raised for the tennis training of young orphans, in May 2024.

2025

  • 25 children trained in tennis with the Tennis Club of Yaoundé.
  • 20 new learners, aged 14 to 24, in photography and digital literacy.
  • BRIGHT carried refugee women's priorities to Nairobi, Kampala, Naivasha and Geneva.

Since 2020

300 people reached through education, vocational training and psychosocial support. BRIGHT's stated allocation of every donation: 85% to programmes, 10% to administration, 5% to fundraising.