Our impact
300 people reached since 2020.
Through education, vocational training and psychosocial support. Our reports describe activities and participation; we are learning to follow each learner to their next step.
Annual reports
Read our reports.
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2021-2022
The first two years.
Access to education, digital learning, photography, tennis, peace education and community engagement, for refugee and internally displaced children and young people in Yaoundé.
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100
children directly reached
Impact report 2021-2022
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10/10
scholarship recipients passed the Ordinary Level examination
August 2022
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20
young people graduated from photography training with Lens on Life
2021
2023-2024
More than twice as many places.
Places in our structured programmes (tennis, photography, entrepreneurship, English tests) more than doubled, from 40 in 2023 to 87 in 2024.
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87
places in structured programmes in 2024, up from 40 in 2023
Impact report 2023-2024
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60+
photographs exhibited at the opening of the Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab, seen by 200 visitors
28 March 2024
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3
Canon MIRAISHA scholarships won by our learners, in photojournalism, filmmaking and screenwriting
October 2024
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15
refugee women and girls certified in entrepreneurship
Empower Her Through Innovation, July 2024
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15
students sat the Duolingo English Test on scholarship
2024
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500,000 FCFA
raised for the tennis training of young orphans
May 2024
2025
Sport, photography, and a voice for refugee women.
In Yaoundé, the tennis programme and the photography programme went on all year, while BRIGHT carried refugee women's priorities to Nairobi, Kampala, Naivasha and Geneva.
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25
children trained in tennis with the Tennis Club of Yaoundé
January to December 2025
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20
new learners, aged 14 to 24, in photography and digital literacy
From April 2025
A story
Preston's journey.
Preston is an internally displaced young person who, with BRIGHT's support, returned to school. In 2021 he joined the Lens on Life photography programme, and in 2024 he won a Canon MIRAISHA scholarship to study filmmaking at IFCPA-CRTV, the Institute for Training and Conservation of Audiovisual Heritage. Today he teaches the next cohort.
BRIGHT has given me hope and a chance to pursue my dreams.
This path, from displacement to the classroom to an international scholarship, is the brighter future our work is built for.
In their words
What BRIGHT changed.
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Tennis has profoundly transformed my life, not only reshaping my perspective on people but also how I interact with the world around me.
Fru PatienceInternally displaced person, BRIGHT tennis player
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BRIGHT has given me hope and a chance to pursue my dreams.
PrestonInternally displaced youth, Canon MIRAISHA scholar
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Their commitment to refugee empowerment made what once seemed impossible a reality.
Yakubu BitrusNigerian refugee, Mastercard Foundation Scholar at the University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Financial transparency
Where every donation goes.
BRIGHT's stated allocation of every donation.
- 85% to programmes
- 10% to administration
- 5% to fundraising
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